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Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 10:02:40 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: Admin can access all files in nonadmin user cygwin file tree
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On Apr 19 02:31, andy wrote:
> Erik Soderquist <ErikSoderquist <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > As administrator is the Windows counterpart to root, yes, I would
> > expect this behavior when starting a mintty session as administrator
>=20
> OK.  I wasn't sure because, depending on what machine I'm using,
> Windows 7 sometimes doesn't allow administrator to access other users'
> accounts.  Thanks.

On Windows it's not sufficient to be admin to have all admin access.
Applications have to request certain privileges explicitely and many
native tools on Windows just don't do that, so they fail.  The Cygwin
DLL requests these privilieges for Cygwin executables under the hood.


Corinna

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