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Subject:	Re: I'd like to have an unreadable file
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On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Larry Hall wrote:
> It's a known fact that Cygwin allows users that are members of the
> Adminstrators group access to any file, regardless of its
> permissions.

Thank you for the quick reply.  (Though I find it scary that Cygwin
can escalate privileges so very much.)

I guess the workaround would be to simply test the script by running
as a user who is not in the Administrators group.

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Tim McDaniel, tmcd AT panix DOT com

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