[ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.4.0-0.4

[Kacper Michajlow]

2015-11-26 14:16 GMT+01:00 Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>:
> Hi Kacper,
>
> On Nov 23 19:09, Kacper Michajlow wrote:
>> 2015-11-21 17:24 GMT+01:00 Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>:
>> > Hi Cygwin friends and users,
>> >
>> >
>> > I released a new TEST version of Cygwin, 2.4.0-0.4.
>> >
>>
>> With this version I get permissions denied when trying to chmod a
>> folder created in a created folder...
>>
>> Basically this doesn't work for me:
>> mkdir test
>> mkdir test/test
>> chmod 755 test/test
>
> I need to see the ACLs of the parent dir of test, the ACL of test and
> the ACL of test/test via the icacls command, before calling chmod.
>
>> Additional top level directory after creating have drwx---r-x, and
>> even after chmod 777, it still have only drwx---rwx. Notice no group
>> permissions? I might be missing something here, but doesn't look
>> right, does it?
>
> It is right if you're using one of those annoying Microsoft accounts
> instead of a real local account.  If so, the primary group SID in your
> user token is identical to your user SID.  This scenario can't be
> easily translated to a POSIX scenario.  The group permissions are set
> to 0 in this case to allow security sensitive applications checking file
> permissions to function without complaining of too open permissions.
>
>
> Corinna
>
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