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Re: Cannot change file permission with either chmod or setfacl


Brian Dessent wrote:
Laurent Monnoye wrote:

$ chmod 600 foo

$ ls -l foo
-rw-r--r-- 0 xotrader01 Users 4 Sep  5 18:05 foo

You've left out the most relevant detail: what type of filesystem does foo reside on? NTFS, FAT, NFS, Samba?

Yep. See the FAQ entry:


<http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.chmod>

This should give you some info to go on.

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