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From: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Trying to create default ACL entries to match file ACL entries
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2019 22:11:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <efaa6341-3392-72ee-1df3-fc8ac12ae306@SystematicSw.ab.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <31d3c868824fc32a16ce8a10e130d72b@plebeian.com>

On 2019-06-04 15:34, Chris Wagner wrote:
> / is just a mount to something like C:\Cygwin64 so there is no problem
> in changing it.
> You should delete all the target thing's permissions first to guarantee starting
> from a clean slate.
> $ setfacl -kb z2/ && getfacl z1/ |setfacl -f - z2/
> This works for me with the latest packages.

Watch out for valid DACLs if you want to be able to create files in any
subdirectory from Windows programs or access them after creation: thar be
grumblins!

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-04 22:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-04 19:34 L A Walsh
2019-06-04 19:44 ` Eliot Moss
2019-06-04 19:59   ` L A Walsh
2019-06-04 21:26     ` Brian Inglis
2019-06-04 21:58       ` L A Walsh
2019-06-04 21:34 ` Chris Wagner
2019-06-04 22:11   ` Brian Inglis [this message]
2019-06-06 19:44   ` how do i create a trusted-installer? (was Re: Trying to create default ACL entries to match file ACL entries) L A Walsh

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