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Re: A permissions puzzle
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: Eliot Moss <moss at cs dot umass dot edu>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2019 17:48:43 +0300
- Subject: Re: A permissions puzzle
- References: <23ecb190-1382-ed1e-20f2-93b44ddf641f@cs.umass.edu>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Greetings, Eliot Moss!
> Dear cygwiners --
> For a long time I _had_ things working, but somehow in switching over to using
> cygwin64 as primary, I messed up permissions on the directories where a backup
> program (EaseUS) puts things. I made the permissions similar to elsewhere in
> by cygwin hierarchy, but I still cannot chown, chgrp, or chmod files created
> by the backup tool - but doing so used to work!
For things outside Cygwin root, I strongly suggest "noacl" option.
> So ... why can't I chown, etc., the pbd file, and what needs to change for me
> to be able to do so? (I _do_ mostly understand this stuff, but maybe I'm
> just too tired and just can;t see the obvious!)
Then you won't even need to chown or chmod, except in dire circumstances,
where some careless program forcibly set permissions to something like 0750.
--
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Saturday, December 21, 2019 17:47:07
Sorry for my terrible english...
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