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Re: Cygwin Everyone group permissions and Vista "shared files" (*not* shared folders)
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:52:52 +0200
- Subject: Re: Cygwin Everyone group permissions and Vista "shared files" (*not* shared folders)
- References: <5e4cc4153gf115hcpi4ilk2s787klg6sra@4ax.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Sep 9 07:47, Barry Kelly wrote:
> Unfortunately, Cygwin creates an ACE for the group Everyone, even with
> umask 0077, or after chmod 0700 is applied. Specifically, this is what
> it looks like using cacls:
>
> Everyone:(special access:)
> READ_CONTROL
> FILE_READ_EA
> FILE_READ_ATTRIBUTES
>
> How can addition of this ACE be controlled or prevented by default for
> Cygwin applications?
It can't be prevented right now. I added "don't create null
group/everyone ACEs to file ACLs" on my Cygwin 1.7 TODO list.
Corinna
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