Permissions question / issue

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Apr 14 15:49, Eliot Moss via Cygwin wrote:
> At present I have:
> 
> $ getfacl id_rsa2
> # file: id_rsa2
> # owner: moss
> # group: moss
> user::rw-
> group::---
> group:SYSTEM:r--        #effective:---
> mask::---
> other::---
> 
> $ icacls id_rsa2
> id_rsa2 NULL SID:(DENY)(Rc,DC)
>         ELIOT-SURFACE-3\moss:(R,W,D,WDAC,WO)
>         ELIOT-SURFACE-3\moss:(Rc,S,RA)
>         NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(R)
>         Everyone:(Rc,S,RA)
> 
> I don't claim expert level understanding of the Windows access
> scheme, but Windows Explorer believes that SYSTEM has read access
> to the file, so I suppose this will work.  I guess we're kind of
> lying to cygwin a little - but in a way that is useful here.

Oh, cool, of course!  Given "mask" is POSIX-only, the backup tool should
work nicely.

Great solution!  I should have thought of that myself, given how long
I have hacked on this POSIX ACL stuff...


Corinna