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Re: Cygwin permissions gone after move


Greetings, ????!

> Finally!
> When I setting up ssh, cron, etc. They doesn't have permissions to
> write changes to anything.
> Since all the files and dirs are d--- --- ---.
No.
They aren't "d--- --- ---"
They are "d--- --- --- +" <-------- notice the "+" thing.
This means the entry have ACL's attached that can't be easily translated into
raw numeric access mask.
You could have solved it by just fixing ACLs the straight way, from Cygwin
folder properties... but...

> But then I've changed those to drwx --- --- using 'chmod u+rwx / -R'
> and then another problem,
> permissions were fixed but it seems it also really chaged "everything",
> I hadn't notice there are /proc to Reg Keys, and /cygdrive for C:\ ...
> The cygwin goes right, but the windows is having some problems.
> The icons at %UserProfile% are gone and some adobe application is
> constantly asking me for license

> Is there a way to undo the changes?

...but, well, you've called a problem upon yourself...
You can fix some of the default system permissions, there's an .inf file for
that. I can't recall it's name, google should help you, I think.


--
WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 29.01.2012, <08:58>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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