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Re: Permission bits


On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 03:23:07PM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>I really wish I understood Windows security and ACLs, etc and how they 
>map or don't map to Cygwin's Posix file permissions but alas I don't. 
>Can somebody explain to me the following:
>
>On my Windows XP box at home I can easily manipulate permissions:
>
>[Home XP]: touch file
>[Home XP]: ls -l file
>-rw-rw-r--    1 Andrew   DeFaria         0 Feb 27 15:13 file
>[Home XP]: chmod 777 file
>[Home XP]: ls -l file
>-rwxrwxrwx    1 Andrew   DeFaria         0 Feb 27 15:13 file*
>
>However on my work XP box:
>
>[Work XP]: touch file
>[Work XP]: ls -l file
>-rw-r--r--    1 adefaria Domain U        0 Feb 27 15:18 file
>[Work XP]: chmod 777 file
>[Work XP]: ls -l file
>-rw-r--r--    1 adefaria Domain U        0 Feb 27 15:18 file
>
>Now I'm wondering why I can chmod here?!? The only difference that I see 
>is that at home my home directory is simply on my C drive and I'm not in 
>a domain while at work my home directory is mapped from a server to my H 
>drive. I know that this oddity is happening because Windows permissions 
>are not equal to Posix permissions and I've tried everything I know how 
>to do to get Windows to allow me to open up the permissions from a Posix 
>perspective. Anybody know how I could get it so that a chmod 666 file 
>will actually yield me a rw-rw-rw mask?

ntsec only works on NTFS drives.

cgf

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