I'd like to have an unreadable file

Tim McDaniel tmcd@panix.com
Thu Apr 30 22:23:00 GMT 2009


On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Larry Hall wrote:
> It's a known fact that Cygwin allows users that are members of the
> Adminstrators group access to any file, regardless of its
> permissions.

Thank you for the quick reply.  (Though I find it scary that Cygwin
can escalate privileges so very much.)

I guess the workaround would be to simply test the script by running
as a user who is not in the Administrators group.

-- 
Tim McDaniel, tmcd@panix.com

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