On 2 September 2010 03:08, Vasya Pupkin wrote: > Because I prefer to keep things under control
Oh $DEITY. > And I don't think it > will require a huge amount of work to disable working with permissions > in setup.exe with command line switch. I started to worry about it > because cygwin failed so much with permissions, having both > cygwin-specific and inherited ones (copied) at the same time, > resulting in complete mess. That appears to be a mess of your own making. Otherwise, concrete bug reports please. The OP's complaint here was that permissions aren't inherited, so I've got no idea what you're on about. > A non-privileged user could modify cygwin > configuration files in /etc and it was not possible to do something > about it. Well, I don't know what you did, but I install Cygwin as administrator and work as an ordinary user, and no, I can't modify anything in /etc. And that's no accident of course, because a lot of work has gone into mapping POSIX permissions to NTFS permissions in a sensible way. Andy ps: Please don't top-post. http://www.cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple