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: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 20:36:21 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin (rm -rf) ignores windows2000 security Message-ID: <20010917203621.A26043@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.21i On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 09:59:59AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote: >My 2c is that the c:/ directory still has everyone:full. That will allow >anyuse with or without cygwin to delete all child directories. (deleting >a file requires write to the directory it is in, deleting a directory >requires write to the directory above.) Also, cygwin does not run as administrator. It uses normal Windows APIs to delete files. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/