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Re: IIS on Windows 7 vs. Cygwin file permissions
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at freemail dot ru>
- To: ht at inf dot ed dot ac dot uk (Henry S. Thompson), cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 05:36:59 +0400
- Subject: Re: IIS on Windows 7 vs. Cygwin file permissions
- References: <f5b7gp0uqxy.fsf@calexico.inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Reply-to: Andrey Repin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Greetings, Henry S. Thompson!
> I've spent the last hour trying to find the answer to this on the
> Web/in the archives, sorry if it's an FAQ:
> What's the least 'open' way possible using chgrp and chmod g+r to
> allow my IIS server to 'see' files on my local disk? At the moment I
> have found only three ways to let IIS see a file at all:
> 1) chmod o+r;
> 2) Use Windows folder security manipulations to give 'user' IUSR read
> access.
> 3) chgrp Users ...
> (1) and (3) are pretty 'open', and I'd rather avoid the lengthy
> Windows UI exercise required for (2) if possible. . .
> Any suggestions?
Only one: If you intend to mix Cygwin tools with native Windows environment,
let Windows handle filesystem permissions.
Or you will never stop running into these issues over and over again.
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 03.12.2012, <05:35>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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