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Re: Admin can access all files in nonadmin user cygwin file tree
- From: Erik Soderquist <ErikSoderquist at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 00:48:32 -0400
- Subject: Re: Admin can access all files in nonadmin user cygwin file tree
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- References: <loom dot 20160418T051044-766 at post dot gmane dot org>
On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 11:11 PM, andy wrote:
> When I open a mintty terminal as administrator, I am able to access all the
> files in the file tree rooted at ~nonAdminUserAccount, even though that
> directory & all subdirectories have mode bits drwx------+. Is this to be
> expected? I'm using Windows 7 and "cygcheck -cd" shows version 2.2.1-1 for
> the cygwin entry.
As administrator is the Windows counterpart to root, yes, I would
expect this behavior when starting a mintty session as administrator
-- Erik
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