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Re: Cygwin Everyone group permissions and Vista "shared files" (*not* shared folders)


On Sep  9 07:47, Barry Kelly wrote:
> Unfortunately, Cygwin creates an ACE for the group Everyone, even with
> umask 0077, or after chmod 0700 is applied. Specifically, this is what
> it looks like using cacls:
> 
>                      Everyone:(special access:)
>                               READ_CONTROL
>                               FILE_READ_EA
>                               FILE_READ_ATTRIBUTES
> 
> How can addition of this ACE be controlled or prevented by default for
> Cygwin applications?

It can't be prevented right now.  I added "don't create null
group/everyone ACEs to file ACLs" on my Cygwin 1.7 TODO list.


Corinna

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