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Re: Differences between 'ls' permissions *nix vs cygwin
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:14:38 +0100
- Subject: Re: Differences between 'ls' permissions *nix vs cygwin
- References: <26280017.post@talk.nabble.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Nov 10 00:44, aputerguy wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is a bug or a feature.
It's Windows.
> But I find the following differences between *nix and cygwin on access
> permissions of 'ls'
>
> Test case:
>
> $ mkdir -p dir1/dir2
> $ chmod 700 dir1
>
> <switch to a another non-root/non-admin user>
>
> $ ls -d dir1
> dir1 [both Linux & Cygwin]
>
> $ ls dir1
> ls: cannot open directory dir1 Permission denied [both Linux & Cygwin]
>
> $ ls -d dir1/dir2
> ls: cannot access directory dir1/dir2 Permission denied [Linux]
> dir1/dir2 [Cygwin]
>
> No acl's beyond the standard ugo posix permissions are set on either system.
> The Cygwin user only belongs to the 'None' and 'Users' group.
>
> In particular, why is a non-privileged Cygwin user able to look over a
> blocked directory further into a file tree?
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22bypass%20traverse%20checking%22
Corinna
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