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Re: NTEA extensions for uid/gid


On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 11:23:28PM +0100, Christian Mueller wrote:

> I don't want to use ntsec because I use my Cygwin
> home directory for Cygwin *and* Windows programs and ntsec displays
> screwed-up file permissions for files created by Windows programs.

The next version of Cygwin changes the ACL inheritance rules on
directories and may solve your display problem with ntsec. 
Please give it a try when it comes out. That will only take effect 
in *new* directories created by Cygwin.

> Thus, I went ahead and modified ntea.cc and security.cc to support
> uid/gid in addition to the file mode. The modified version now uses
> three extended attributes:

Good idea!

Pierre

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