----- Original Message ----- From: "Collin Grady" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gene C. Ruzicka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 9:06 PM Subject: Re: why does cygwin default security setup give EVERYONE access everywhere?
> Just a thought, but try setting the CYGWIN environment variable to > contain ntsec, that should make it follow NT security settings, if I'm not > mistaken. > Hope this helps, but this only perpetuates the problem i'm trying to solve. you see, access by everyone, everywhere IS the NT (actually Windows 2000) security setting; but i want to change that, not have cygwin ratify it. btw, i did set ntsec, and not surprisingly, it didn't change things at all. my sense is that for user foo, i'm going to have to create a directory C/cygwin/home/foo, and assign the user full access to this directory, and read/execute access to other pertinent cygwin files. then, setting cygwin = ntsec would make cygwin follow these settings--i hope. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/