X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 07:54:02 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: why cygwin have access to all the users in Windows Message-ID: <20110512055402.GG11041@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <31599578 DOT post AT talk DOT nabble DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <31599578.post@talk.nabble.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On May 11 19:20, solde9 wrote: > > Hi I am newbie to cygwin. I am surprised at how cygwin have access to those > directories belonging to users with a password and private access, that > normally cannot be accessed from the normal Windows environment. How this > happens? Every admin has these rights, but they are usually disabled in the user token. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa446619%28VS.85%29.aspx 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