On May 19 08:43, Jiří Engelthaler wrote: > I'd like to hear an answer from Corinna Vinschen pls. The problem with the given permissions is that they don't reflect anything comparable with POSIX ACLs. The Cygwin ACL code is based on trying to emulate POSIX ACL behaviour and the permissions you have set on these files are not giving the user any permissions. The workaround for you is to use "noacl" mounts for paths affected by this (usually all paths outside the Cygwin tree). Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat