From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Permissions not set for 'other' when copying from Windows
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2018 15:46:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181217154537.GA28727@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <710e2dea-09c3-36bd-5266-fed728228cc9@mail.com>
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On Dec 17 16:21, john doe wrote:
> On 12/17/2018 1:15 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Dec 17 13:06, john doe wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm trying to understand why a copied file from 'C:\' into
> >> /home/user/try doesn't have the permissions set for 'other' (see below).
> >
> > POSIX "other" == Windows "Everyone". Windows default permissions
> > typically don't give permissions to "Everyone". Thus POSIX "other"
> > has no permissions by default after copying such a file.
> >
>
> Thank you, it works:
>
> PS C:\> & icacls try.txt /grant "*S-1-1-0:(GA)"
Just FTR: You can do this in Cygwin the POSIX way:
chmod o+r try.txt
combined with -R for recursive tasks and with find(1) loops for more
complex scenarios.
Corinna
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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-17 12:06 john doe
2018-12-17 12:16 ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-12-17 15:21 ` john doe
2018-12-17 15:46 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
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