local admin `chmod400` still can write

[Achim Gratz]

Ilya Basin <basinilya <at> gmail.com> writes:
> From cygwin shell I'm able to read and write files even though my
> Windows user has no permission for it. I tried `chmod` and to deny
> everything for Everyone in the Windows dialog, but it didn't help. How
> is it possible?

The permission is granted via ACL (note the + at the right of the
permissions from ls).

================v
>     -r--------+ 1 Administrators ???????? 0 Jul 30 19:23 aaa.txt
================^

To check the ACL on that file:

getfacl aaa.txt



Regards,
Achim.


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