Admin can access all files in nonadmin user cygwin file tree

andy AndyMHancock@gmail.com
Tue Apr 19 02:31:00 GMT 2016


Erik Soderquist <ErikSoderquist <at> gmail.com> writes:
> As administrator is the Windows counterpart to root, yes, I would
> expect this behavior when starting a mintty session as administrator

OK.  I wasn't sure because, depending on what machine I'm using,
Windows 7 sometimes doesn't allow administrator to access other users'
accounts.  Thanks.


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