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Re: acl_access denies access owned by 'Everyone' group
- From: egor duda <deo at logos-m dot ru>
- To: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre dot Humblet at ieee dot org>
- Cc: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 18:53:10 +0400
- Subject: Re: acl_access denies access owned by 'Everyone' group
- Organization: deo
- References: <19113724867.20020823191251@logos-m.ru> <3D6665E2.92F8C445@ieee.org>
- Reply-to: egor duda <cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com>
Hi!
Friday, 23 August, 2002 Pierre A. Humblet Pierre.Humblet@ieee.org wrote:
PAH> But I also believe your setup is non-sensical. It makes no sense to have a
PAH> file in the Everyone group. Everyone is already used in the file ACL to
PAH> record access rights for "other". If the group is Everyone, there is no
PAH> way to distinguish between "group" rights and "other" rights. Note that
PAH> as a side effect "other" is shown as having no access to the file.
PAH> See my recent e-mail in the cygwin-patches list.
PAH> Because of the impossibility to distinguish between "group" and "other" access
PAH> in such a case, there is no way to handle the situation "correctly".
Are you talking about nt->unix access rights mapping here?
What if in this case we set permissions like this:
-abcxyzxyz user Everyone file_name
?
Or having file owned by 'Everyone' group has other side-effects?
Egor. mailto:deo@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19