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Subject: Re: Avoiding /etc/passwd and /etc/group scans
From: Robert Collins <rbcollins AT cygwin DOT com>
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On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 07:19, Christopher Faylor wrote:


> >- Do the modes depend on the value of ntsec when setup is run=20
> >  (e.g. inheriting from the directory)? =20
>=20
> Nope.  setup isn't a cygwin app, so...
> cgf

And because ntsec wasn't the default we couldn't set reasonable acls...

Here's a short term workaround, until we fix setup.exe.

Add a .bat file as a postinstall script that scans the cygwin tree and
sets executable rights to .exe and .dll files using the cacls command.

Rob

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