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Re: Admin can read user file from bash, despite permissions
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 01:43:38 -0700
- Subject: Re: Admin can read user file from bash, despite permissions
- References: <ftkisc$jj1$1@ger.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Gmane User wrote:
> CACLS shows an extensive set of permissions for the power user owner,
> but only READ_CONTROL, FILE_READ_EA, & FILE_READ_ATTRIBUTES for
> LaptopName\None and Everyone. I've come across nothing on the web
> (yet) about a special privilege that allows administrators the level
> of access that it seems to have. In fact, if I just open up a DOS
> shell as Administrator, I cannot "more" the said file. So it seems to
> be specific to Cygwin rather than Windows.
Um: <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-04/msg00218.html>
This is the relevant part:
> Cygwin uses this to simulate the unix semantics of "root" (i.e. total
> access to anything regardless of permissions)
Brian
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