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Re: setting default group and/or disabling CYGWIN ACL behavior
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 10:13:00 +0200
- Subject: Re: setting default group and/or disabling CYGWIN ACL behavior
- References: <6.2.5.6.2.20080701020152.01cc2ee0@flumedata.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Jul 1 02:07, starlight@binnacle.cx wrote:
> Constantly have to wrestle with CYGWIN imposed ACLs on files I
> create. It's bothersome to constantly issue 'cacls /t' and
> 'icacls * /reset /t' commands to strip out the CYGWIN overrides
> after receiving complaints from others who can't access the
> files. No one is in the Administrators group.
chmod? setfacl? umask?
> The best solution would be to just turn it off (!) so that
> normal Windows ACL inheritance works the way it does outside of
> CYGWIN.
>
> A possible work-around if the above ideal solution is
> unavailable would be to have some way to change the group id to
> something other than "None".
Everybody is in the None group if you don't have a DC. So I
don't see the problem if you use a umask matching your needs.
> Can't find a 'newgrp' command and
> the '/etc/passwd' file and 'bash' login syntax clearly do not
> support this.
bash has nothing to do with that, of course. As for /etc/passwd,
you didn't read the user's guide, apparently:
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-files
> Don't see any way to set the process default
> group in Windows without running a domain controller.
There is no way. That doesn't mean we can't rectify this in
Cygwin (within the imposed Windows rules). See above.
Corinna
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