On Sep 10 12:57, René Berber wrote: > On 9/10/2010 11:18 AM, René Berber wrote: > > On 9/10/2010 4:04 AM, Yohann wrote: > > > > [snip] > >> Is there any way to check the proper permission configuration on windows > >> XP or > >> to restore it? > > > > Windows doesn't care about permissions, it uses 777 for everything, and > > that is the default (everything has that permission, text, pictures, > > music, zip archives, ...). > > > > You don't need to change it, but if you do, you have to be careful to > > keep executables with the executable permission, or they won't run. > > Also dynamic libraries need the executable bits to be used... just ran > into that one. Windows sort of cares about permissions, probably that's > why the default is 777.
Weeeell, not exactly. The default permissions are rather 0700, plus an extra 7 for Administrators and SYSTEM. Have a look into your $USERPROFILE directory. Typically only you have full control permissions on your files, Administrators and SYSTEM. But nobody else has any permissions. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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