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Re: Bash script permissions


The only cygwin1.ddl this system has ever seen is the one I installed via
setup.exe from http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/

David Monk


----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall@rfk.com>
To: "David Monk" <david@purplebear.net>; <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 3:47 PM
Subject: Re: Bash script permissions


> At 04:35 PM 9/12/2001, David Monk wrote:
> > > On NT use CYGWIN=ntsec to use the NTFS ACLs, on 9x forget about it.
> > > Where there's no security at all...
> >
> >There are problems with this approach. When I set ntsec in the CYGWIN
> >environment variable, everything is now marked as executable. And I DO
mean
> >everything. It would be a nightmare to manually go through and change
> >permissions on everything.
>
>
> Did you have a snapshot DLL on your system at any time?  That might
explain
> what you see.  The behavior you describe is not typical.
>
>
> Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
> RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
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>


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