Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 16:00:46 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin Subject: Re: ntsec environment variable Message-ID: <20010418160046.T15962@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin References: <005701c0c731$71e7de80$c4332041@campbell> <20010417135556.E12559@cygbert.vinschen.de> <001901c0c773$0fd99ca0$c4332041@campbell> <20010417214024.D15962@cygbert.vinschen.de> <000b01c0c7d7$8ae4cb40$c4332041@campbell> <20010418100247.K15962@cygbert.vinschen.de> <3ADD9875.3162379F@ece.gatech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3ADD9875.3162379F@ece.gatech.edu>; from cwilson@ece.gatech.edu on Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 09:36:53AM -0400 On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 09:36:53AM -0400, Charles S. Wilson wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > That's the point. Users only can use chown if they have the user > > right "Restore files and directories". That right is only given to > > the groups "Administrators" and "Backup Operators" by default. > > That's ...similar... to Unix systems. > > > > I'd like to point out that granting the "Restore files and directories" > right to ordinary users defeats any security provided by windows NTFS. > That right basically gives the user the ability to defeat any > permissions restrictions -- both from within cygwin and in normal > Windows usage. Correct. Creating directories for users using the appropriate permissions is the job of the administrator as it's the job of root in U*X environments. Using chmod later on own objects is ok for the normal user. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple