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From: | Jason Rumney |
Subject: | bug#865: 23.0.60; The directory is unsafe today |
Date: | Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:16:05 +0800 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) |
Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
drwxrwxrwx 1 Administrators Domain Users 0 03-07 11:14 server The part that where server-unsure-safe-dir barks is (eql (nth 2 attrs) (user-uid)) This check is maybe something that should be skipped on w32? As you can see from the dired output above it will get "Domain Users" in my case.
I think it will get "Administrators" in fact, but it is still wrong. This is caused by a misfeature of Windows, that if the creator of a file is a member of the local "Administrators" group, then ownership is assigned to "Administrators" instead of the individual user. I think a similar problem will occur on FAT32 systems where ownership is assigned to "Everyone".
Eli, is it possible to tell the difference between an individual user and a group when we get the owner from the system? If so, we could check if the current user is a member of that group, and if so report them as the owner rather than the whole group, to work around ownership tests like this in lisp code.
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