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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
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  • chmod 0 works 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 - Слава Україні
    Mar 22, 2015 at 10:55

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