On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 15:34, Karl Wright <daddywri@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I saw a thread where somebody saw icacls.exe being called by the >> one-click installer. I'm having the same thing - the installer has >> been running for 45 minutes now and is basically going to have to be >> stopped because I'm out of time waiting for it. Looking at process >> monitor, it is clear that icacls.exe is going through every file on >> the entire system and changing its permissions. The process tree >> indicates that it is a child of the installer, and that it is running >> the command: >> >> icacls C:\ /grant "kawright":RX >> >> Clearly this won't do at all and should be considered a severe installer bug. > > If it does, it certainly sounds like a very bad bug. > > However, according to the documentation for icacls > (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753525(WS.10).aspx), you > should use "/t" to get it to traverse into subdirectories, and clearly > it's not doing that. So I wonder why it would go across the whole > filesystem - might tbere be a bug in icacls? Yes - that's how it's supposed to work (ie. *not* using /t). The purpose of that code is to ensure that the entire path leading up to the data/installation directories is readable by the users that need it. We've had a number of reported installation failures in the past caused by weirdness where read or execute permissions weren't available for (for example) the service account user, which caused somewhat mysterious failures. > Or maybe it has something to do with inheritance? The way > inheritance-permissions works on ntfs is, um, let's call it > interesting. Maybe it needs to specify the (NP) flag to not propagate > inheritance or something? Sachin/Ashesh; can one of you investigate this please? Karl; can you please provide precise details of your Windows version, and anything unusual about your disk configuration? I know this doesn't happen on any of the installations of Windows 7 that we use for testing (which tend to be the MSDN builds, running on local NTFS disks), so I wonder if there's an icacls bug in a specific build or rev of Windows, or when used on a certain type of filesystem. -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
