-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 "Raul Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> At the cygwin prompt, type: > umask > > umask of 0000 means no permission changes. > Any 2s mean turn off execut permmission for that > person or group. (From right to left is public, > group and user permission -- but I don't really know > what "group" means on windows -- probably the > right most two digits mean the same thing -- > "everyone"). I did that and got 0022. > You can change umask by passing a simiilar > number to it on the command line. Many cygwin > users probably have something like umask 022 in > /etc/profile (so it takes effect every time they start > a new shell). I'm now left with two questions: What are the consequences of putting umask 0000 in /etc/profile? That sounds as if it could open a security hole. I realize Windows/cygwin is different than *nix, but that doesn't necessarily make me feel more secure. It sounds a bit as if one should at most unpack with a script that saves the old umask, sets it to 0000, runs unzip, and then restores the old umask. Am I being paranoid? Why does unzip seem to work sometimes and not others? As you saw in the crude (as I now know) ll listing from bash, different directories in my ~addons folder have different permissions, ranging from 700 to 755. FWIW, both data/ (in which the failed sqlite/ resides) and math/ (in which the successful lapack resides) have 755. I did a bit more checking. Of an erratic sample of dlls, I found that graphviz/bin/libexpat*.dll don't have execute permissions; all the rest in my sample (of about 3-4) looked okay. I don't see a graphviz lab or demo or I would try it; no time to learn and try it tonight. Bill - -- Bill Harris http://facilitatedsystems.com/weblog/ Facilitated Systems Everett, WA 98208 USA http://facilitatedsystems.com/ phone: +1 425 337-5541 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: For more information, see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQFGZMl43J3HaQTDvd8RAo+lAJ9qzakQZGUSv6d1hzrGs9my/4CqYQCfS39u 5b4okaI/CAgZlyEs4R1Tgs0= =FJDN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
