X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 10:59:07 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin for Windows 8 Message-ID: <20121016085907.GF25877@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <1350329081.35214.YahooMailNeo@web171406.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> <20121015193636.GC25877@calimero.vinschen.de> <1350331470.1670.YahooMailNeo@web171403.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> <1350341744.91309.YahooMailNeo@web171405.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1350341744.91309.YahooMailNeo@web171405.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) 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 On Oct 15 23:55, GrahamC wrote: > Another anomaly with disk drive partition devices (/dev/sdX1, /dev/sdX2 etc.) is the access control. >   > While the whole disk devices (/dev/sdX) can only be accessed when running as administrator, the > individual partition devices (/dev/sdX1, /dev/sdX2 etc.) can be both read and written without > needing administrator mode. Access control is not done inside Cygwin. The permissions on the block devices are set by Windows. If you want to take a closer look, see the mapping of the native namespace into the Cygwin /proc/sys namespace. Look at everything under /proc/sys/Device/Harddisk*, but make sure you're admin, otherwise you won't see everything. If you want to take an even closer look, I suggest to download the winobj tool from sysinternal. It also provides a detailed ACL view. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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