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Re: Question: Desired owner/group when running setup-1.7.exe


On Apr 19 10:27, Julio Costa wrote:
> >> [X ] If the current user is an administrative user, make "Administrators"
> >> the owner of the files:
> >>
> >> owner: Administrators.
> >> group: The primary group of the account running setup.
> >>
> >> Comment: ____________________________________________________________
> >>
> >>[...]
> I'm also more inclined to the 3rd option, although I've not taken that
> decision easily, because user foo would not see his/her files as foo's
> but as Admins's (actually root). But seems to be the more "compatible"
> solution. The least harm law...

WHy do you think that?  Setup.exe has nothing to do with the Cygwin DLL
as far as file ownership is concerned.  The files installed from the
distro will be owned by Administrators, the files created within Cygwin will
be owned by the user itself.

> And I would add another rule: If the installing user is not Admin, but
> the primary group is 'Domain Users', change gid to 'Users', so that an
> instalation don't be inaccessible for local users.

I don't think that's necessary.  Either you're an admin and you want to
install for everyone, or you are a user just installing for yourself.
There's no other option and no need for another option.


Corinna

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