NTFS permissions problem

Sat May 3 22:51:00 GMT 2003

I got everything working...but am still not exactly sure why. Of note: 
Do not use "Authenticated Users" as the permission mask from what you 
want everything to inherit.
Cyber.Zombie wrote:
> I have a problematic set of ACLs that is causing Cygwin to not behave 
> (and it's not Cygwin's fault). I recently had to do a 
> format/reinstall of XP (yes, even with XP it's sometimes easier to 
> just pull the trigger). In my setup, I only put the OS (and such 
> Microsoft programs that don't ask) on the C partition. I put 
> programs, data, etc. on D through G. What I didn't realize was that 
> all user/group SIDs have embedded in them the machine SID. And that 
> SID changed when I reinstalled. I discovered the hard way what 
> happens when you don't save that little bit of info. I finally 
> figured out a way to force the change and/or removal of all ACLs that 
> have invalid SIDs (through the W2K resource utility SUBINACL). So 
> everything was now pointing to valid SIDs. But I didn't stop there. 
> I figured that it'd be easier in the future if all files inherited 
> their attributes from the root ACLs
>> Apparantly, Cygwin does not like this. I did the standard Setup.exe 
> install. Then brought up bash. No /etc/passwd,group files. No 
> rights to anything. The following directory listing fragments were 
> found:
>> bash-2.05b$ ./ls -aln /cygdrive/d/cygwin
> total 2
> d--------- 8 400 401 0 Apr 29 23:26 .
> d--------- 26 544 544 0 Apr 29 23:13 ..
> d--------- 2 400 545 0 Apr 29 23:21 bin
> ---------- 1 400 545 57 Apr 29 23:26 cygwin.bat
> ---------- 1 400 545 766 Apr 29 23:26 cygwin.ico
> d--------- 8 400 401 0 May 1 08:06 etc
> d--------- 10 400 545 0 Apr 29 23:21 lib
> d--------- 2 400 545 0 Apr 29 23:19 tmp
> d--------- 17 400 545 0 Apr 29 23:20 usr
> d--------- 6 400 401 0 Apr 29 23:19 var
> bash-2.05b$ ./ls -aln /cygdrive/d
> total 5414
> d--------- 2 400 65535 0 Feb 22 10:22 Media
> d--------- 2 400 65535 0 Jun 20 2002 My Music
> d--------- 35 400 65535 0 Apr 25 02:49 Program Files
> ...
>> Questions: Why is everything coming up with no rights? And I assume 
> the 65535 group entries indicate that I must've missed a couple of 
> SIDs. But there's nothing in the Windows file/folder security tab 
> (including advanced) that mentions the ownership group -- just the user?
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