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Re: remove alternate access method / access control list
On Jul 21 12:03, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 07/21/2010 11:44 AM, Fred Wheeler wrote:
> > chmod affects the access permissions according to the ntsec system,
> > but has no effect on this alternate access method.
>
> This is possibly a bug in cygwin. POSIX says:
> [...]
> That is, calling chmod() to change bits should also have the effect of
> removing ACLs, per POSIX (although POSIX appears to be silent about the
> case of calling chmod() to set the bits to the value they already have).
>
> But you would need to test this on Linux, to see if cygwin behaves the
> same as Linux in this regard, [...]
$ uname -sr
Linux 2.6.33.6-147.fc13.x86_64
$ touch foo
$ ls -l foo
-rw-r--r--. 1 corinna vinschen 0 Jul 22 08:57 foo
[~]$ setfacl -m g:users:rw- foo
[~]$ ls -l foo
-rw-rw-r--+ 1 corinna vinschen 0 Jul 22 08:57 foo
[~]$ chmod 600 foo
[~]$ ls -l foo
-rw-------+ 1 corinna vinschen 0 Jul 22 08:57 foo
[~]$ getfacl foo
# file: foo
# owner: corinna
# group: vinschen
user::rw-
group::r-- #effective:---
group:users:rw- #effective:---
mask::---
other::---
Corinna
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