From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: "cygwin-apps@cygwin.com" <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com>,
Christian Franke <Christian.Franke@t-online.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH setup] Add new option --chown-admin
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2022 21:37:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d8d3e4a7-288f-247c-c797-0db4f9eef209@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <064f7b6b-ff09-8544-f444-63e92eea1b4d@t-online.de>
On 04/10/2022 13:05, Christian Franke wrote:
> Jon Turney wrote:
>>
>> Corinna had some concerns about making the owner a group, rather than
>> a user, which I believe historically caused some difficulties in
>> Cygwin, so I think I'll need to understand that better before making a
>> decision about this change.
>
> I see. Do you have any info about these difficulties?
> Are these still relevant? If yes, let's forget this patch.
After a bit of research, I think the issue was that if you make user
owner and group owner map onto the same Windows SID, certain unix access
permissions cannot be reversibly mapped onto a Windows ACL.
(e.g you can't set the mode to 0600, because when you read that back,
it's mode is 0660. Some programs e.g ssh check for and require 0600
permission on some files)
This perhaps isn't terribly relevant to files created by setup.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-29 21:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-06 7:14 Christian Franke
2022-07-06 13:53 ` Jon Turney
2022-07-06 16:34 ` Christian Franke
2022-07-07 11:38 ` Jon Turney
2022-07-07 14:45 ` Christian Franke
2022-07-07 14:59 ` Christian Franke
[not found] ` <d7d51d1c-f6d5-2fac-3e6d-86714efd0734@dronecode.org.uk>
[not found] ` <32655945-5075-0823-2a1d-b72caa4b7791@t-online.de>
2022-07-12 12:50 ` Jon Turney
2022-08-23 15:20 ` Jon Turney
2022-08-23 17:27 ` Christian Franke
2022-08-26 13:27 ` Jon Turney
2022-08-26 15:02 ` Christian Franke
2022-08-28 17:33 ` Christian Franke
2022-09-02 13:56 ` Jon Turney
2022-09-02 15:17 ` Christian Franke
2022-09-15 17:45 ` Jon Turney
2022-10-04 12:05 ` Christian Franke
2022-11-29 21:37 ` Jon Turney [this message]
2022-11-30 18:49 ` Christian Franke
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