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From: "Eliah Kagan" <degeneracypressure AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: How to edit files owned by SYSTEM?
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> According to Vinicius on 9/30/2006 5:59 AM:
> > Hello,
> >
> > How to edit files owned by SYSTEM, please?

On 9/30/06, Eric Blake wrote:
> chown them to someone else, or chmod them to be world writable, or become
> SYSTEM yourself (search the archives for sysbash for this last trick).
> Administrator accounts can generally chown a file to another user.

Yes, in other words, the same way you would edit them in "native windows."

-Eliah

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