From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" To: "David Monk" , Subject: Re: Bash script permissions Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 13:23:00 -0000 Message-id: <4.3.1.2.20010912162304.02ff4ef0@pop.ma.ultranet.com> References: <006d01c13bc4$2d570130$391e10ac@dmonknt> X-SW-Source: 2001-09/msg00643.html At 03:50 PM 9/12/2001, David Monk wrote: >I am running the latest net realease on NT 4 and Win 2k. I am having a >problem limiting, from cygwin, the permissions on a bash script so that only >the owner can execute it. >I finally after much fiddling figured out that with the shebang line in the >script, cygwin immediately thinks it's executable by all. If I try any chmod >affecting it's executable status, it's ignored. How can I work around this? Set ntsec in your CYGWIN environment before starting any Cygwin app. >Also, how can this be worked around on Win9x also, as it is planned to >eventually distribute this script set. You can't. 9x has no concept of security. Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- 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/