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: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 10:59:19 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" Subject: Re: rsh: "Permission denied" on file creation. Cygwin 1.3.3 on W2K Adv Srv SP2. Message-ID: <20011013105919.O1155@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" References: <3BC72151.F11E6CB0@cportcorp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3BC72151.F11E6CB0@cportcorp.com>; from peter.buckley@cportcorp.com on Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 12:58:57PM -0400 On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 12:58:57PM -0400, Peter Buckley wrote: > If you are running inetd as a service on the cygwin box, > the default account it runs as is SYSTEM. You can change > this to be a real account- SYSTEM is "an NT artifact" and > really has very few effective rights, other than being > able to run things as a service. The user that you run Ouch! Where did you get that information? SYSTEM is exactly _the_ privileged user account which has all rights neccessary for an operating system. It's the real "root" account for NT in contrast to the Administrators which are not allowed to do everything (e.g. user context switches). The only restriction SYSTEM suffers from is, it has no access to network shares which require authentication... which makes sense. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/