Re: cygwin 1.7.35 reads file permissions differently, affects fetchmail

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

On Mar 23 09:57, Martin Koeppe wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I just updated from cygwin 1.7.32 to 1.7.35,
> and now file permissions are calculated differently,
> which breaks fetchmail for me:
> 
> Here are the Windows permissions:
> (no permissions for Domain Users / DomÃnen-Benutzer)
> 
> $ cacls fetchmailrc.txt
> D:\fetchmail\fetchmailrc.txt NT-AUTORIT.T\SYSTEM:(ID)F
>                              NT-AUTORIT.T\LOKALER DIENST:(ID)C
>                              DOMAENE\LocalAdmin:(ID)F
>                              VORDEFINIERT\Administratoren:(ID)F
> 
> cygwin-1.7.32 $ ls -l
> -rwx------+ 1 LocalService DomÃnen-Benutzer    1932 15. Aug 2014
> fetchmailrc.txt
> 
> cygwin-1.7.35 $ ls -l
> -rwxrwx---+ 1 LocalService DomÃnen-Benutzer    1932 15. Aug 2014
> fetchmailrc.txt
> 
> 
> Now, there are group permissions set. For me it breaks fetchmail, because
> fetchmail only runs when the config file is owned by the user running
> fetchmail (LocalService in my case, a system user I never can login with)
> and with max 0700 permissions. While this check is ok/good for Unix, because
> you still can view/edit the file as user root, you now can't anymore as
> Administrator on Windows.

Huh?  You can.  Just open a Cygwin admin shell and take a look.


Corinna

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