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Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2004 19:14:44 -0400
From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre DOT humblet AT ieee DOT org>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Cygwin permissions problem
Message-ID: <20040807231444.GA36304397@hpn5170>
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On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 03:09:44PM -0700, Fish wrote:
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> I (Fish) wrote:
> 
> > Just thought I'd throw this into the mix too in case it might help:
> >  
> > 
> > I *do* have Microsoft's "Virtual PC" product installed on my system
> > (and already have a couple of test Windows 2000 systems setup under
> > it), so if there's any type of "experimentation" scenario[1] you or
> > anyone else would like me to try in order to try and get to the
> > bottom of this issue, I'd be more than happy to do it.
> 
> <footnote n/a, so snipped>
> 
> Well, I just tried doing a fresh (first time) install on a "virgin",
> up-to-date (fully patched) Windows 2000 [Virtual PC] system, and
> guess what?
> 
> 
> I doesn't work. :(
> 
> (manual cygcheck -v -c -s o/p attached)

setup is a Windows program. The files it creates have the inheritable
permissions of the parent directory. 
For new installations, all permissions are inherited from the top 
install folder (typically c:\).
In your case, it looks like some directories (like /bin) have OK
inheritable permissions, while others (like /etc) don't.

In addition to the properties menu, you can quickly visualize permissions
with the Windows "cacls" program.

Pierre

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