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Corinna Vinschen-2 writes:
> On Nov 10 07:22, aputerguy wrote:
> > I was <sigh> unaware of that "feature"
> > However, after turning it off, 

> Don't do that.  There's more to this user right than you see at first
> sight.  A lot of stuff might not work anymore as you expected in Windows.

Hmmm... even if I just turn it off for ordinary users?
I read through some of the Microsoft documentation and I didn't see any such
warning.


I guess I'm unsure of how to secure a machine easily and properly in Windows
in a way that is not just loaded with ACL's (you don't need to answer the
general question here since I will ask it more broadly in another thread)

>> While in Cygwin, for any value of <any string> whether the file/directory
>> exists or not, I seem to get the following rather than an error message.
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 1006 513 0 Nov 30 2006 dir/<any string>
>> where 1006:513 = UID:GID

> Your own user account is in the administrators group, by any chance?

Mine is, but I was testing this in a bash.exe window that is 'runas' another
*non-administrator* user (belongs only to group Users)


Corinna

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