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RE: RESOLVED (?): Cygwin permissions problem
At 04:21 AM 8/11/2004, you wrote:
>> You do that by creating the directory you want to install
>> Cygwin to and setting the permissions, via Windows, before
>> Cygwin installation, making sure to set the permissions so
>> they are inherited.
>
>Ah. Then if I understand things correctly, I could probably remove
>the "Everyone" group from everywhere (i.e. from all partitions (root
>[drive] folders), just like I had it before) and just have on the
>*Cygwin* directory *only*, right? Makes sense. Don't know why I
>didn't think of it before. (Hind sight is always 20-20, eh?)
Sure. Having "Everyone" everywhere is not required. It only needs
to be on the directory you're installing Cygwin to like you surmised.
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