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Re: file permissions on vista


Arnaud Legout wrote:
> Hello Brian,
> 
> Brian Dessent wrote:
>> I can't reproduce this.  I right click and create a new Notepad file
>> foo.txt, it has the permissions:
>>   
> 
> may be you have deactivated the UAC as morgan suggested?
>> The permissions on a file created with native Windows methods should
>> inherit from the parent folder, following standard NTFS rules, so maybe
>> you need to look at what the containing folder's permissions are set to.
>>   
> 
> I see. Indeed, the access right on the \cygwin\c was 000, then I did a
> chmod u+rwx on this folder,
> but of course, vista is not aware of that and I suppose that NTFS still
> consider that c has no right,
> thus any folder and file created in c:.
> However, I have no idea how to manage those rights on vista.
> Do you know any reasonable documentation on those access rights on vista.
> Also, how are mapped the vista rights to the cygwin rights?


<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html>

'chmod' manipulates the Windows security mechanism.  The "typical" way of
manipulating permissions from Windows is to use the "Security" tab in the
properties dialog that you can get on any file/folder in the Explorer by
doing a RMB and selecting "Properties".


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