Re: File permissions questions

[Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please at cygwin dot com>]

At 03:42 PM 4/19/2005, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am running the latest Cygwin on Windows 2000
>and have the following problems.
>
>I start windows program from Bash shell script and
>the windows program creates a file.
>The permissions of the created file become "d---------"
>after which I cannot access it from Bash script itself.
>I have not managed to find out what happens here (I have 'ntsec' set)
>but is there a way to make Cygwin to use only W2K's
>file permissions and ignore the unix type of
>access rights drwxrwxrwx?


No, at least not as you have stated it.  Please read and follow the 
problem reporting guidelines at <http://cygwin.com/problems.html> if you 
need to follow-up on this issue with the list.


>Another problem: if I use explorer to create file to directory
>it shows in Bash as:
>
>-rwxrwxrwx   1 Administrators None 0 Apr 19 22:33 New Text Document.txt*


A "directory"???


>However, I am logged locally in as "pekka" into windows and command "id"
>at Bash shows
>
>uid=1000(pekka) gid=544(Administrators)\ groups=0(root),513(None),544(Administrators),545(Users)
>
>These 2 lines are from /etc/passwd:
>
>Administrator:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:500:544:(deleted):/home/Administrator:\
>/bin/bash
>pekka:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1000:544:(deleted):/cygdrive/c/home/cygwin:/\
>bin/bash
>
>Why is the new file not created as owner 'pekka' and
>group 'Administrators'?

Check out the documentation 
<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-files>.  There's allot 
of answers to allot of questions in here (not just your current one).  It's
worth your time to read through it once (or again if you've done so before).



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