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File permissions cygwin install
- From: Henk van Lingen <henkvl at cs dot uu dot nl>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:47:34 +0200
- Subject: File permissions cygwin install
Hi,
I'm a cygwin rookie and can't get I clear clue (after googling) as to why
after installing cygwin on WinXP I have these permissions:
$ ls -al /cygdrive/c/cygwin/
total 9
drwxrwx---+ 11 administrator Users 0 Jul 4 13:52 .
drwxrwxr-x+ 11 Administrators SYSTEM 0 Jul 15 11:10 ..
-rwxr-x---+ 1 administrator Users 57 Jul 3 11:46 Cygwin.bat
-rwxr-x---+ 1 administrator Users 7022 Jul 3 11:46 Cygwin.ico
drwxrwx---+ 2 administrator Users 0 Jul 3 11:45 bin
drwxrwx---+ 2 administrator Users 0 Jul 3 11:44 cygdrive
drwxrwx---+ 2 administrator Users 0 Jul 3 11:44 dev
drwxrwx---+ 15 administrator Users 0 Jul 4 13:57 etc
drwxrwxrwx+ 3 Administrator Users 0 Jul 4 13:52 home
drwxr-x---+ 20 administrator Users 0 Jul 3 11:44 lib
drwxrwxrwt+ 2 administrator Users 0 Jul 15 16:00 tmp
drwxrwx---+ 17 administrator Users 0 Jul 3 11:44 usr
drwxrwx---+ 9 administrator Users 0 Jul 4 13:21 var
I don't beleieve it is supposed to be this way? I.e. it seems odd to give
users write access in all kind of system directories?
regards,
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