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Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 10:59:19 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: rsh: "Permission denied" on file creation. Cygwin 1.3.3 on W2K Adv Srv SP2.
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In-Reply-To: <3BC72151.F11E6CB0@cportcorp.com>; from peter.buckley@cportcorp.com on Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 12:58:57PM -0400

On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 12:58:57PM -0400, Peter Buckley wrote:
> If you are running inetd as a service on the cygwin box, 
> the default account it runs as is SYSTEM. You can change 
> this to be a real account- SYSTEM is "an NT artifact" and 
> really has very few effective rights, other than being 
> able to run things as a service. The user that you run 

Ouch! Where did you get that information?  SYSTEM is exactly
_the_ privileged user account which has all rights neccessary
for an operating system.  It's the real "root" account for NT
in contrast to the Administrators which are not allowed to do
everything (e.g. user context switches). 

The only restriction SYSTEM suffers from is, it has no access 
to network shares which require authentication... which makes
sense.

Corinna

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