Re: why does cygwin default security setup give EVERYONE access everywhere?
- Original Message - From: "Eric M. Monsler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gene C. Ruzicka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 8:37 PM Subject: Re: why does cygwin default security setup give EVERYONE access everywhere? > "Gene C. Ruzicka" wrote: > > > > my pc uses windows 2000 professional, and my cygwin folder is > > C:\cygwin . i've been looking into giving co-workers access to > > the cygwin setup on my pc, but i've noticed something strange: > > it seems that the default security setup allows EVERYONE full > > access to the cygwin folder and all subfolders. > > Under NT4.0 SP6, when you share a drive onto the network, the default > seems to be to allow everyone full access. Not cygwin related. h i've got lots of software installed on the drive, but i only have this problem with cygwin. i'm simply going to change the security settings to something more appropriately manually. i've already done most of that task. gene -- 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/
Re: why does cygwin default security setup give EVERYONE access everywhere?
- 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/
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, -Collin Grady Shoot first, shoot again, shoot some more, take another shot, then try and ask a question. - Original Message - From: "Gene C. Ruzicka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 8:25 PM Subject: why does cygwin default security setup give EVERYONE access everywhere? > my pc uses windows 2000 professional, and my cygwin folder is > C:\cygwin . i've been looking into giving co-workers access to > the cygwin setup on my pc, but i've noticed something strange: > it seems that the default security setup allows EVERYONE full > access to the cygwin folder and all subfolders. but i certainly > don't want any user on my pc to have this sort of access, and > to prevent that from happening, i'm going to have to rework > the cygwin profiling. i'm something of a pc newbie, and it's > been rather painful sorting out just how to specify the > security settings appropriately. > > it seems to me that it would have made far more sense to make > the cygwin files have the same security profile(s) as any other > file that happens to get installed on the system. that way, > it would be easy for me simply specify that any user would have > full access to his own directories/subfolders, but only read/execute > access to cygwin software, and no access whatsoever to the > folders of another user. > > question: what was the reason for giving EVERYONE full access to > the cygwin folder and everything in it? > > btw, i'll shortly be making another post regarding organizing user > files that's partially related to this post. > > gene > > > -- > 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/ > -- 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/
