Cygwin installation a permissions of /home...

[Tim Prince]

Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> I have noticed that after installing Cygwin, /home has the following 
> permissions:
> 
> drwxrwxrwx+  4 Administrator   Administrators     0 Mar 18 17:52 home
> 
> and in /home
> 
> drwxrwxrwx+  Administrator Administrators  0 Mar 18 22:49 Administrator
> drwxrwxrwx+  pippo         Users           0 Mar 19 23:51 pippo
> 
> Should all these dirs have all these perms (drwxrwxrwx)?
> 
> On GNU/Linux Kubuntu 7.10:
> 
> drwxr-xr-x root root   0 Mar 18 17:52 home
> drwxr-xr-x pippo pippo 0 Mar 18 17:52 home/pippo
> 
cygwin doesn't over-ride Windows.  Windows has very different default 
permissions, compared to linux.
Did you try this with various Windows memberships for pippo?

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