From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Bash script permissions Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 13:49:00 -0000 Message-id: <20010912224924.N1285@cygbert.vinschen.de> References: <006d01c13bc4$2d570130$391e10ac@dmonknt> <20010912222501.M1285@cygbert.vinschen.de> <009801c13bca$78aab310$391e10ac@dmonknt> X-SW-Source: 2001-09/msg00652.html On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 03:35:33PM -0500, David Monk wrote: > > On NT use CYGWIN=ntsec to use the NTFS ACLs, on 9x forget about it. > > Where there's no security at all... > > There are problems with this approach. When I set ntsec in the CYGWIN > environment variable, everything is now marked as executable. And I DO mean > everything. It would be a nightmare to manually go through and change > permissions on everything. Apparently you don't seem to understand the concept of NTFS security and _why_ it's set that way after switching ntsec on. Besides the Microsoft documentation read http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html . Thinko: When Cygwin has been installed using no security settings at att, how are the default settings on the files... > Maybe Cygwin won't be able to be a supported platform after all. It could depend on the developer of the application, too, not only on the developer of the underlying system... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/