MS coreutils: chown is missing after installation

[lionelconswork]

MS coreutils: chown is missing after installation. We need this tool for admins to change the owner and groups, and for owners of a file to switch the group of a file/dir.

[lionelconswork]

@lhecker Please have a look at this.

[lhecker]

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In this case I figured that you're technically correct. I'm not entirely sure whether to act on it, however, since Windows typically works exclusively via ACLs. A port of setfacl may be more appropriate in a way.

[lionelconswork]

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In this case I figured that you're technically correct. I'm not entirely sure whether to act on it, however, since Windows typically works exclusively via ACLs. A port of setfacl may be more appropriate in a way.

I am not fully qualified to comment, but CERN has qualified staff which pointed this out:
Windows has ACLs (DACL for access, and SACL for security/alerts), but it has a separate owner and group object fields to represent POSIX filesystems.
The API in question is SetNamedSecurityInfoA(), where you pass a flag field for the information to set (DACL, SACL, POSIX owner, POSIX group).

[lionelconswork]

I'm notified of all comments in this repository and also read all of them.

In this case I figured that you're technically correct. I'm not entirely sure whether to act on it, however, since Windows typically works exclusively via ACLs. A port of setfacl may be more appropriate in a way.

If you want to port /bin/setfacl, then PLEASE clone the FreeBSD version of /bin/setfacl, because it actually supports ZFS/NFSv4 ACLs, which are WinNT ACLs.
But this is offtopic, because this bug is about changing the owner and group fields via SetNamedSecurityInfoA() from cmd.exe

[lionelconswork]

/bin/setfacl, then PLEASE clone the FreeBSD version of /bin/setfacl, because it actually supports ZFS/NFSv4 ACLs, which are WinNT ACLs.

ref uutils/coreutils#12723

[oech3]

dupe of #95