X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4AAD7BAB.7060301@cygwin.com> Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:09:31 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Reading what should not! References: <4AACFBE6.10100@alice.it> In-Reply-To: <4AACFBE6.10100@alice.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 On 09/13/2009 10:04 AM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > Just a curiosity... (I have seen th following on Cygwin-1.7, but perhaps > it happens also on 1.5) > > Suppose that there are two users: the administrator (root) and a simple > user (pippo). Suppose that 'pippo' has a file 'foo.txt' with permissions: > > rw------- > > Why 'root' can read 'foo.txt'? For example with > > root@PC~ > $ less /home/pippo/foo.txt > > On GNU/Linux, the same command (or with 'sudo') asks for pippo's > password! (Which looks right to me) > > Trying to read the same file as 'root', but with Windows applications > (Notepad, for example), fails: one gets 'Access denied' (also if foo.txt > is copied in the 'root' HOME or /tmp, as pippo's file rw-------). Even > this looks right to me... We've been through this before as recently as the last couple of weeks. This is new behavior with 1.7 and it's there to mimic what one sees in Linux. I can't reproduce your reported results in Fedora 8. For me, if I am 'root', I can see the contents of 'foo.txt' just fine with the permissions you have set on it. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple