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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > setup is a Windows program. The files it creates have > the inheritable permissions of the parent directory. Well then it must not be setup that's doing it then. <shrug> But I think it's obvious that *some* program *somewhere* isn't coded right. > For new installations, all permissions are inherited > from the top install folder (typically c:\). Well, that may be what's *supposed* to happen... >;-) > In your case, it looks like some directories (like /bin) > have OK inheritable permissions, while others (like /etc) > don't. Yep. :( > In addition to the properties menu, you can quickly > visualize permissions with the Windows "cacls" program. Output attached. Any help/insight you or anyone else can provide would be much appreciated. Thanks. - -- "Fish" (David B. Trout) fish@infidels.org Fight Spam! Join CAUCE! http://www.cauce.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 7.0.4 iQA/AwUBQRXCekj11/TE7j4qEQI2bwCfWfUNT53mLWpa1+5bUeU6Kgp9dqIAnilG 2WjlBL+/J6EoAraBmqvu62ux =mzrE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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