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23.0.60; The directory is unsafe today

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From: "Lennart Borgman" <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
To: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 865 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#865: 23.0.60; The directory is unsafe today
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 15:18:55 +0200

On 9/5/08, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
> > From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> > Cc: 865 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com,  Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org>,  emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
> > Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:11:10 -0400
> >
> > I think the problem comes earlier: the (let ((default-file-modes ?\700))
> > should make sure that the directory created there is owned by the use
> > and not by some Administator group.
>
> That's a different problem.  I don't see how it can be solved without
> introducing a new primitive, which on Windows will DTRT.  (I think
> GNU/Linux and Unix systems that support ACLs will need a similar
> primitive, but I don't know enough about those to say for sure.)

I thought that perhaps a workaround would be to changed the owner so I tested.

I did a test on the directory where I had trouble. I did something like

  (set-file-modes "serv2" ?\654)

CACLS still reports the same ACL entries.

I thought that maybe was because the owner is the group
Administrators. However changing the owner to me and trying
set-file-modes again gave the same result.

Am I perhaps not using set-file-modes correctly? (I get no errors.)

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