From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30682 invoked by alias); 11 Apr 2015 11:11:54 -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 30670 invoked by uid 89); 11 Apr 2015 11:11:53 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-la0-f52.google.com Received: from mail-la0-f52.google.com (HELO mail-la0-f52.google.com) (209.85.215.52) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-GCM-SHA256 encrypted) ESMTPS; Sat, 11 Apr 2015 11:11:52 +0000 Received: by laat2 with SMTP id t2so28989406laa.1 for ; Sat, 11 Apr 2015 04:11:49 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.152.43.74 with SMTP id u10mr5188729lal.90.1428750708963; Sat, 11 Apr 2015 04:11:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.25.78.130 with HTTP; Sat, 11 Apr 2015 04:11:48 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20150411094414.GC19111@calimero.vinschen.de> References: <20150410100703.GA4401@calimero.vinschen.de> <87lhhzcarc.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <20150411094414.GC19111@calimero.vinschen.de> Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 11:11:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [TESTERS needed] New POSIX permission handling From: Bryan Berns To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-04/txt/msg00203.txt.bz2 >> > That means, even if SYSTEM or Administrators have full access to the >> > file, the POSIX permssion bits will not reflect that fact. And while >> > other users get access denied based on the mask value, SYSTEM and >> > Administrators will never get access denied based on the mask. >> >> If you want to put this to better use in larger settings it would seem >> preferrable if it was possible to define a list of users to treat this >> way in fstab. > > Nope, sorry, no configuration for this. Either it's handled without > any exception, or for SYSTEM only, or for SYSTEM+Admins. But either > way, we're doing it the same way on every system. Damn. I was about to reply with Achim's exact same thought --- like a file in /etc with a list of SIDs. I can empathize with Corinna's veto though -- having a hundred tweak-able settings in Cygwin is unmaintainable for the general populous. I may apply a local patch to extend this ability myself because Cygwin has become rather unusable for users with home's on our network drives (given all the programs that attempt to do sanity checks on group perms). That said, I appreciate what has been integrated --- it will help in several scenarios. I will test the release this weekend. Thanks for all the hard work! -- 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