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Seems cygwin is unable to cancel a file readability mode, viz.:
$ echo "123" > ttt
$ cat ttt
123
$ ls -ls ttt
1 -rw-r--r-- 1 Administrator None 4 Mar 22 10:19 ttt
$ chmod 000 ttt
$ ls -ls ttt
1 ---------- 1 Administrator None 4 Mar 22 10:19 ttt
$ cat ttt
123
$
Namely, even when ttt's mode is changed to 000, one can still read the file.
Any ideas how to make chmod on cygwin behave as expected?
Environment:
- CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 1.7.33-2(0.280/5/3) i686
- Windows 7
boardrider
Posted 2015-03-22T08:29:50.470
Reputation: 615
chmod 0works for me in Cygwin. If you're running Cygwin as Administrator, then, arguably, this is correct behavior; after all, root can read files with a mode of 0. – Scott – 2015-03-22T10:55:58.797