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Re: Tutorial on ACL's?
At 11:09 AM 4/23/2004, you wrote:
>Is there a good tutorial for ACL's somewhere? I find ACL's do not work they
>way I expect on NTFS. Eventually directories which I use chmod and chown on
>become unusable for general actives. For example, I regularly install
>applications on my e: drive. However, because I have used chmod and chown
>to correct problems there before, the disk is now in a state where
>everything I install is owned by "docbill" and I'm the only one who can
>install applications. Even then I regularly have to do something like
>chmod -R 775 /cygdrive/e during an install because directories are created
>with insufficient permission to install components. I'm fairly certain this
>is related to the ACL settings...
You might have better luck tracking down a tutorial of sorts in a Windows
forum.
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