From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 122276 invoked by alias); 15 Jul 2015 14:52:47 -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 122260 invoked by uid 89); 15 Jul 2015 14:52:47 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=2.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: vms173025pub.verizon.net Received: from vms173025pub.verizon.net (HELO vms173025pub.verizon.net) (206.46.173.25) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Wed, 15 Jul 2015 14:52:46 +0000 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Received: from [192.168.1.230] ([108.7.54.198]) by vms173025.mailsrvcs.net (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7.0.5.32.0 64bit (built Jul 16 2014)) with ESMTPA id <0NRJ00ED5ANJ3GA0@vms173025.mailsrvcs.net> for cygwin@cygwin.com; Wed, 15 Jul 2015 09:52:36 -0500 (CDT) X-CMAE-Score: 0 X-CMAE-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=WpDWSorv c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=Z9UJdt/jcW91Hd6r4aN9qw==:117 a=w_pzkKWiAAAA:8 a=oR5dmqMzAAAA:8 a=4g2epv4a4k0A:10 a=-9mUelKeXuEA:10 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=zOBTXjUuO1YA:10 a=qyEgHvcQBaKyOpKmvw8A:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 a=buB1NfXUTBUA:10 a=Lz48L_9qCwoA:10 Message-id: <55A673AF.2000106@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 14:52:00 -0000 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: ACL Hell References: <483801861.20150715113218@yandex.ru> In-reply-to: <483801861.20150715113218@yandex.ru> X-SW-Source: 2015-07/txt/msg00251.txt.bz2 On 07/15/2015 04:32 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Sky Diver! > >> Hi, in the past several months or so, cygwin started giving me ACL >> pain in small surges which are gradually growing.. > >> Here's a basic scenario that is slowly, but surely, driving me NUTZ: > >> $ ln -s /cygdrive/c/tmp /tmp >> ln: failed to create symbolic link ‘/tmp’: Operation not permitted > > Are you running with superadmin credentials? > Unlike Linux, Windows doesn't let regular users make symlinks. Well, we're missing the cygcheck information from the OP (see the problem report guidelines at this link - ) to know if he's set one of the non-default modes of creating symlinks (see ). The default method for creating Cygwin symlinks wouldn't require elevated permissions. If this is the issue, then the solution is to either create symlinks with elevated permissions or to use the default symlink mode which works even without the elevated permissions. -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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