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Re: NT extended attributes
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: NT extended attributes
- From: mh at mike dot franken dot de (Michael Hirmke)
- Date: 17 Oct 1998 19:20:00 +0200
- Organization: Kommunikationsnetz Franken e.V. (Nuernberg)
Charles Wilson [cwilson@ee.gatech.edu] wrote:
[...]
>I believe that this is one of the fundamental differences between the Unix
>security model and the NT security model. Under Unix, an owner can transfer
>ownership of files that they own to another user, whereas under NT, users
In Unix you can't change the ownership of a file to someone else, even
if you are the actual owner.
[...]
>
>My 2c
>Chuck Wilson
Bye.
Michael.
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