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

[Peter Binney]

On Sat, 28 Dec 2019 at 20:23, Lee <ler762@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/28/19, Andrey Repin  wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Try adding the exec option to fstab:
>
> $ grep cygdrive /etc/fstab
> # none /cygdrive cygdrive binary,posix=0,user 0 0
> none /cygdrive cygdrive binary,posix=0,user,noacl,exec 0 0
>
> $ which xcopy
> /cygdrive/c/windows/system32/xcopy
>
> $ ls -l /cygdrive/c/windows/system32/xcopy
> -rwxr-xr-x 2 Lee None 47616 Sep 15  2018 /cygdrive/c/windows/system32/xcopy.exe
>
> Regards,
> Lee

Hi Lee - many thanks indeed for that. I've added "exec" and WHICH now works.

Cheers,
Peter

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