X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Gmane User Subject: Re: Admin can read user file from bash, despite permissions Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:16:31 -0400 Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <47FDD33A.63F0088A@dessent.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Gmane User wrote: > Brian Dessent wrote: >> Gmane User wrote: >> >>> CACLS shows an extensive set of permissions for the power user owner, >>> but only READ_CONTROL, FILE_READ_EA, & FILE_READ_ATTRIBUTES for >>> LaptopName\None and Everyone. I've come across nothing on the web >>> (yet) about a special privilege that allows administrators the level >>> of access that it seems to have. In fact, if I just open up a DOS >>> shell as Administrator, I cannot "more" the said file. So it seems to >>> be specific to Cygwin rather than Windows. >> >> Um: >> >> This is the relevant part: >> >>> Cygwin uses this to simulate the unix semantics of "root" (i.e. total >>> access to anything regardless of permissions) > > > Thanks for reiterating, Brian. Oh, I should have mentioned that Diskeeper probably uses the privilege since it managed to defrag the files that the built-in defragger, JkDefrag, and Ultra Defragmenter could not. -- 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/