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Re: Incorrect permissions on mount point when user does not have permission to access mounted directory
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:17:25 +0100
- Subject: Re: Incorrect permissions on mount point when user does not have permission to access mounted directory
- References: <5ad9716ee2c6a1cd5e977ced71f35cd6@localhost>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Dec 23 18:55, Chris January wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have drive I: mounted at /backup but the ACLs deny access to anyone not
> in the Administrators group. I am in the Administrators group, but running
> Windows 7 so I can only access the drive if I am running with elevated
> privileges. If I run Cygwin without elevated privileges and type ls -l
> /backup, Cygwin shows the following:
>
> $ ls -l /backup
> -rw-r--r-- 1 Chris None 0 2006-12-01 00:00 /backup
>
> i.e. Cygwin incorrectly reports the mount point is a regular file and not
> a directory.
I can reproduce it. I'll see if I can come up with a patch for 1.7.2.
Thanks for the report,
Corinna
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