This is the mail archive of the
cygwin@cygwin.com
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: What is the W2K equivalent of "chgrp groupname file"?
- From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>,"Francis Litterio" <franl at world dot std dot com>
- Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 23:00:35 -0000
- Subject: Re: What is the W2K equivalent of "chgrp groupname file"?
- References: <u1y5iocz3.fsf@world.std.com>
Francis Litterio <franl@world.std.com> wrote:
> I just upgraded to a Cygwin 1.3.15-2, and I'm using ntsec-style
> security with NTFS for the first time. This has me wondering about
> group ownership of files, specifically:
>
> What is the W2K equivalent of the command "chgrp groupname file"?
>
> Using Explorer, I can change the user that owns a file or directory,
> but I see no way to change the group owner. Is "group ownership"
> really a feature of NTFS or is it faked by Cygwin?
I believe, but have not checked, that it is a feature of NTFS - just that
Windows doesn't actually use it for anything much, just defaulting it to
'None' or 'SYSTEM'.
Max.
--
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/