> Cygwin does not do this on a standard installation. Is it something you've > done
I did use the standard Setup and nothing else... My $HOME looks fine, too: $ cd $ pwd /home/ANTON $ getfacl . # file: . # owner: ANTON # group: None user::rwx group::--- other::--- default:user::rwx default:group::r-x default:other::r-x $ id uid=197609(ANTON) gid=197121(None) groups=197121(None),559(Performance Log Users),545(Users),4(INTERACTIVE),66049(CONSOLE LOGON),11(Authenticated Users),15(This Organization),113(Local account),4095(CurrentSession),66048(LOCAL),262154(NTLM Authentication),401408(Medium Mandatory Level) Whatever is on drive G: was mostly also created by Cygwin -- I was just simply moving stuff from $HOME to there using tar (IIRC)... Initially, it was a clean and empty NTFS volume (brand new). So it was something like: $ mkdir /cygdrive/g/cygwin and then for each $stuffdir I wanted moved $ cd; tar cf - ./$stuffdir | (cd /cygdrive/g/cygwin; tar xvf -) So, I have no idea why permissions there ended up all perplexed. But please note that .socket gets created perfectly fine in that directory, yet the problem occurs when that's a subdirectory, created from under Cygwin! (and again, all's fine if mkdir for the subdir is done by Windows) $ cd /cygdrive/g/cygwin $ getfacl . # file: . # owner: ANTON # group: None user::rwx group::--- group:Authenticated Users:rwx group:SYSTEM:rwx group:Administrators:rwx group:Users:r-x mask::rwx other::--- default:user::--- default:group::--- default:group:Authenticated Users:rwx default:group:SYSTEM:rwx default:group:Administrators:rwx default:group:Users:r-x default:mask::rwx default:other::--- -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple