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On 07/07/2022 15:45, Christian Franke wrote:
> Jon Turney wrote:
>> On 06/07/2022 17:34, Christian Franke wrote:
>>> Jon Turney wrote:
>>>> On 06/07/2022 08:14, Christian Franke wrote:
[...]
>>>>>
>>>>> BTW: 'nt_sec.setDefaultSecurity (isAdmin)' is never called with 
>>>>> 'isAdmin==true' as 'root_scope' is always 0.
>>>>
>>>> root_scope is set later, by the "Install For" option on the "Select 
>>>> Root Install Directory" page.
>>>>
>>>> To me, this looks like a (very long standing) bug that we shouldn't 
>>>> be calling setAdminGroup() here, but after root_scope has been set.
>>>
>>> If this bug is very old, I'm not sure whether this should be fixed. 
>>> Setting admin group to files which are owned "only" by current user 
>>> is possibly not very effective.
>>
>> It's true that some people might be relying on that buggy behaviour.
> 
> I have one very old Cygwin installation from Win7 times. Very old 
> installed files still have group="Administrator", newer files have 
> group="None". The timestamps suggest that the regression was introduced 
> early in 2012. The first file with group="None" is from March 2 2012.

Hmm... [1] seems like the obvious suspect for the change responsible for 
that, but I don't immediately see how...

[1] 
https://cygwin.com/git/?p=cygwin-apps/setup.git;a=commitdiff;h=befc9dd806824f22ebb740be96ba8c0ae8f63bb4;hp=34d534a6d74e5516d6691fb1d9cb6309682afa0b

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