Re: File permissions cygwin install

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Jul 15 16:47, Henk van Lingen wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm a cygwin rookie and can't get I clear clue (after googling) as to why
> after installing cygwin on WinXP I have these permissions:
> 
> $ ls -al /cygdrive/c/cygwin/
> total 9
> drwxrwx---+ 11 administrator  Users     0 Jul  4 13:52 .
> drwxrwxr-x+ 11 Administrators SYSTEM    0 Jul 15 11:10 ..
> -rwxr-x---+  1 administrator  Users    57 Jul  3 11:46 Cygwin.bat
> -rwxr-x---+  1 administrator  Users  7022 Jul  3 11:46 Cygwin.ico
> drwxrwx---+  2 administrator  Users     0 Jul  3 11:45 bin
> drwxrwx---+  2 administrator  Users     0 Jul  3 11:44 cygdrive
> drwxrwx---+  2 administrator  Users     0 Jul  3 11:44 dev
> drwxrwx---+ 15 administrator  Users     0 Jul  4 13:57 etc
> drwxrwxrwx+  3 Administrator  Users     0 Jul  4 13:52 home
> drwxr-x---+ 20 administrator  Users     0 Jul  3 11:44 lib
> drwxrwxrwt+  2 administrator  Users     0 Jul 15 16:00 tmp
> drwxrwx---+ 17 administrator  Users     0 Jul  3 11:44 usr
> drwxrwx---+  9 administrator  Users     0 Jul  4 13:21 var
> 
> 
> I don't beleieve it is supposed to be this way? I.e. it seems odd to give
> users write access in all kind of system directories?

setup.exe creates the files with Windows default permissions. 
Usually those are determined by the inheritable permissions of the
parent directory in which you install the Cygwin directory.  Setup
is a plain Win32 application which doesn't know about POSIX perms.


Corinna

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