Cygwin NTFS permission listing oddness.

[DePriest, Jason R.]

On 11/2/06, Linda Walsh <> wrote:
> You somewhat answered my question, indirectly.
> I wasn't aware windows had a "group" security descriptor
> in addition to the user-owner-creator field.
> Where does it store the information?

Dave Roth has a pretty good description of the various ACLs that Windows uses.

It is on his site for his Win32::Perms perl module.

http://www.roth.net/perl/perms/

Give it a read and see if it answers your questions.

-Jason

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