Files created with CYGWIN have "NULL SID:(DENY)" windows ACL, inter alia

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, Peter Binney!

Bottom posting in this list, please.

> Hello Andrey - many thanks again.

> I have added noacl to the default fstab entry, so it reads:
> none /cygdrive cygdrive noacl,binary,posix=0,user 0 0

> and that sorts out the permissions problem, thank you.

> But, bizarrely, it introduced a new one - the WHICH command no longer
> reports non-executable files on the PATH.

> Such files are found and executed OK (presumably because Windows logic
> is adhered to, where execute permission is not required), but WHICH
> doesn't "see" them.

> So I had to build a work-around for WHICH (which I use in various
> scriptware) since I can also find no way to set the execute bit on a
> file ("chmod a+x" doesn't seem to do anything with or without noacl).

This could be actually because you are lacking executable permission on your
files. Which Windows by default always set.


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Saturday, December 28, 2019 16:57:49

Sorry for my terrible english...


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