A permissions puzzle

[Andrey Repin]

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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