Monthly Archives: December 2014

CYGWIN: Chmod will not change group permissions.

Posted on December 30, 2014 by jaye

I found that, under cygwin, chmod will not change groups permissions on a file that is stored on NTFS. The group owner needs to be change to User first. Then chmod works as expected.

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