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Date: | Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:05:17 -0500 (CDT) |
From: | Tim McDaniel <tmcd AT panix DOT com> |
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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. -- Tim McDaniel, tmcd AT panix DOT com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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