Trying to create default ACL entries to match file ACL entries

Brian Inglis Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca
Tue Jun 4 22:11:00 GMT 2019


On 2019-06-04 15:34, Chris Wagner wrote:
> / is just a mount to something like C:\Cygwin64 so there is no problem
> in changing it.
> You should delete all the target thing's permissions first to guarantee starting
> from a clean slate.
> $ setfacl -kb z2/ && getfacl z1/ |setfacl -f - z2/
> This works for me with the latest packages.

Watch out for valid DACLs if you want to be able to create files in any
subdirectory from Windows programs or access them after creation: thar be
grumblins!

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