X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <4C7FB49B DOT 70808 AT bopp DOT net> From: Vasya Pupkin Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 01:11:32 +0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Fwd: Windows File permissions are not being inherited - Cygwin 1.7 - Windows 7 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 12:49 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: > How did you find the problematic permissions? By looking at the > security tab of the file properties? Did you confirm that users really > were able to modify files they weren't supposed to? Could the > offending privileges have been inherited from the directory Cygwin was > installed in? If only I could remember all the details. I didn't have much time to figure out what happened. Easy solution for me was to disable acl in cygwin, which I did, and was happy until I used setup.exe and found out it destroyed my permissions. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple