X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: wrbach@freenet.de Subject: Can cygwin bypass windows file permissions? X-Abuse: 304623294 / unknown, unknown User-Agent: freenetMail MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Message-Id: Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:54:22 +0100 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id lB3E0O17024837 Hello! I have made a file test.txt in d:temp and removed all Windows permissions from it. Consequently, I cannot access the file from Windows Explorer or cmd.exe. However, if I try the following from a cygwin bash I get the contents of the file $cat /cygdrive/d/temp/test.txt How can cygwin bypass the windows file permissions, if I have even removed SYSTEM from the Acl: $ ls -l test.txt ---------- 1 Administratoren SYSTEM 3058 May 4 2006 test.txt $ getfacl.exe test.txt # file: test.txt # owner: Administratoren # group: SYSTEM user::--- group::--- mask:rwx other:--- $ cacls test.txt d:temptest.txt Best regards, Rainer -- 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/