From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7589 invoked by alias); 21 Dec 2019 14:50:06 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 7577 invoked by uid 89); 21 Dec 2019 14:50:05 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_THEBAT,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.1 spammy=Moss, careless, H*UA:Bat!, dear X-HELO: forward105p.mail.yandex.net Received: from forward105p.mail.yandex.net (HELO forward105p.mail.yandex.net) (77.88.28.108) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sat, 21 Dec 2019 14:50:04 +0000 Received: from mxback30j.mail.yandex.net (mxback30j.mail.yandex.net [IPv6:2a02:6b8:0:1619::230]) by forward105p.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id 056644D40344; Sat, 21 Dec 2019 17:50:02 +0300 (MSK) Received: from sas2-b157fac3b6f2.qloud-c.yandex.net (sas2-b157fac3b6f2.qloud-c.yandex.net [2a02:6b8:c08:b282:0:640:b157:fac3]) by mxback30j.mail.yandex.net (mxback/Yandex) with ESMTP id CU0Z8BlRK0-o144CkQT; Sat, 21 Dec 2019 17:50:01 +0300 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yandex.ru; s=mail; t=1576939801; bh=V9aIZP2XlnwKPBAwFOaTESHqz/WMijihApgdPszrnUA=; h=In-Reply-To:Subject:To:Reply-To:From:Message-ID:References:Date; b=YjL7sMB/L0uzidVc9cd58PH/tL2svUgAHFN3Hsl9aEVq99piJ+Sr594Y+f1xgRxdF UEdzq6mnW8Tiu4bm4D+R4jTzvakOWBIZ9swK8FA7wN+ljGjq09fd6iNnIgDOSuSBRl b2q4F76fXa5LGbXwNWH3XJAshrgBfECGf0rTcz0E= Authentication-Results: mxback30j.mail.yandex.net; dkim=pass header.i=@yandex.ru Received: by sas2-b157fac3b6f2.qloud-c.yandex.net (smtp/Yandex) with ESMTPSA id Xm0vNia1ZS-o1V0uHVK; Sat, 21 Dec 2019 17:50:01 +0300 (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client certificate not present) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (HELO daemon2.darkdragon.lan) by daemon2 (Office Mail Server 0.8.12 build 08053101) with SMTP; Sat, 21 Dec 2019 14:48:43 -0000 Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2019 15:42:00 -0000 From: Andrey Repin Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <273794590.20191221174843@yandex.ru> To: Eliot Moss , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: A permissions puzzle In-Reply-To: <23ecb190-1382-ed1e-20f2-93b44ddf641f@cs.umass.edu> References: <23ecb190-1382-ed1e-20f2-93b44ddf641f@cs.umass.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-12/txt/msg00230.txt.bz2 Greetings, Eliot Moss! > Dear cygwiners -- > For a long time I _had_ things working, but somehow in switching over to using > cygwin64 as primary, I messed up permissions on the directories where a backup > program (EaseUS) puts things. I made the permissions similar to elsewhere in > by cygwin hierarchy, but I still cannot chown, chgrp, or chmod files created > by the backup tool - but doing so used to work! For things outside Cygwin root, I strongly suggest "noacl" option. > So ... why can't I chown, etc., the pbd file, and what needs to change for me > to be able to do so? (I _do_ mostly understand this stuff, but maybe I'm > just too tired and just can;t see the obvious!) Then you won't even need to chown or chmod, except in dire circumstances, where some careless program forcibly set permissions to something like 0750. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Saturday, December 21, 2019 17:47:07 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple