oops! apologies to Corinna

random user cnpxzsdwle4m0dkt@gmail.com
Fri Feb 27 08:43:00 GMT 2015


Umm... Sorry! I hope it's clear to all, I meant Corinna !

On 2/26/2015 9:27 PM, random user wrote:
>> Regarding Corrinne's proposal to treat SYSTEM's ACE distinct from others
>> in forming the apparent group permission "mask":
>>
>> Might it be sensible to do somewhat similar for the case where a file's
>> owner is the same as its primary group (i.e., same SID)?  It has seemed
>> the chmod behavior for this case has long been what's proposed (at least
>> for the typical case of a chmod leaving the user with wider privileges
>> than the group), but the group permission bits have appeared set to ls
>> and other tools.  It would seem to help re ~/.ssh and other cases that
>> are checked by programs wanting there to not be any group permissions.
>>
>> (Less sure I think this is really a good idea, but it'd seem consistent
>> with treating SYSTEM this way given the standard default ACLs on
>> /c/Users/<user>):  Should Administrators be treated the same as SYSTEM?
>>
>> ----
>>
>> As long as I'm posting:  My hearty thanks to Corrinne, Yaakov, and the
>> many others for their work to make Cygwin as full and useful a system as
>> it has become.
>>


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