From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [TESTERS needed] New POSIX permission handling
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 14:32:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150411143225.GJ7343@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADi7v6L1QrigKn0-ca-XXD2hSZxT5LTvZL2=xAR5+qrcBCEVZw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Apr 11 07:11, Bryan Berns wrote:
> >> > That means, even if SYSTEM or Administrators have full access to the
> >> > file, the POSIX permssion bits will not reflect that fact. And while
> >> > other users get access denied based on the mask value, SYSTEM and
> >> > Administrators will never get access denied based on the mask.
> >>
> >> If you want to put this to better use in larger settings it would seem
> >> preferrable if it was possible to define a list of users to treat this
> >> way in fstab.
> >
> > Nope, sorry, no configuration for this. Either it's handled without
> > any exception, or for SYSTEM only, or for SYSTEM+Admins. But either
> > way, we're doing it the same way on every system.
>
> Damn. I was about to reply with Achim's exact same thought --- like a
> file in /etc with a list of SIDs. I can empathize with Corinna's veto
> though -- having a hundred tweak-able settings in Cygwin is
> unmaintainable for the general populous. I may apply a local patch to
> extend this ability myself because Cygwin has become rather unusable
> for users with home's on our network drives (given all the programs
> that attempt to do sanity checks on group perms).
I'd suggest to give the new ACL handling sa try first. It might not
be as bad (anymore) as you think.
> That said, I appreciate what has been integrated --- it will help in
> several scenarios. I will test the release this weekend. Thanks for
> all the hard work!
Thank you,
Corinna
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-11 14:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-10 10:07 Corinna Vinschen
2015-04-10 21:13 ` Warren Young
2015-04-11 9:35 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-04-11 0:00 ` Steven Penny
2015-04-11 9:40 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-04-11 10:07 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-04-11 16:26 ` Ernie Rael
2015-04-12 8:22 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-04-11 10:23 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-04-11 10:47 ` Steven Penny
2015-04-11 14:30 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-04-11 16:05 ` Andrey Repin
2015-04-12 17:37 ` Adam Dinwoodie
2015-05-16 2:39 ` Steven Penny
2015-05-17 7:44 ` Duncan Roe
2015-05-19 7:52 ` Jiří Engelthaler
2015-04-11 8:47 ` Achim Gratz
2015-04-11 9:02 ` David Macek
2015-04-11 9:08 ` Achim Gratz
2015-04-11 9:51 ` David Macek
2015-04-11 11:51 ` Achim Gratz
2015-04-11 10:00 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-04-11 12:36 ` David Macek
2015-04-11 14:31 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-04-11 9:44 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-04-11 11:11 ` Bryan Berns
2015-04-11 14:32 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2015-04-11 16:05 ` Andrey Repin
2015-04-11 17:11 ` donmez
2015-04-12 8:35 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-04-12 13:21 ` İsmail Dönmez
2015-04-12 14:25 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-04-15 15:42 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-04-16 10:20 ` Ismail Donmez
2015-04-16 11:03 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-04-16 16:09 ` Ismail Donmez
2015-04-16 16:24 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-04-16 16:48 ` Ismail Donmez
2015-04-17 7:30 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-04-17 10:06 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-04-17 15:17 ` Ismail Donmez
2015-04-17 16:22 ` Corinna Vinschen
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