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Hello!

I have made a file test.txt in d:temp and removed all Windows permissions from it.
Consequently, I cannot access the file from Windows Explorer or cmd.exe.

However, if I try the following from a cygwin bash I get the contents of the file
$cat /cygdrive/d/temp/test.txt

How can cygwin bypass the windows file permissions, if I have even removed SYSTEM from the Acl:
$ ls -l test.txt
---------- 1 Administratoren SYSTEM 3058 May  4  2006 test.txt

$ getfacl.exe test.txt
# file: test.txt
# owner: Administratoren
# group: SYSTEM
user::---
group::---
mask:rwx
other:---

$ cacls test.txt
d:temptest.txt

Best regards,
Rainer










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