Admin can read user file from bash, despite permissions

[Brian Dessent]

Gmane User wrote:

> CACLS shows an extensive set of permissions for the power user owner,
> but only READ_CONTROL, FILE_READ_EA, & FILE_READ_ATTRIBUTES for
> LaptopName\None and Everyone.  I've come across nothing on the web
> (yet) about a special privilege that allows administrators the level
> of access that it seems to have.  In fact, if I just open up a DOS
> shell as Administrator, I cannot "more" the said file.  So it seems to
> be specific to Cygwin rather than Windows.

Um: <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-04/msg00218.html>

This is the relevant part:

> Cygwin uses this to simulate the unix semantics of "root" (i.e. total
> access to anything regardless of permissions)

Brian

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