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Re: Admin can read user file from bash, despite permissions


Brian Dessent wrote:
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)


Thanks for reiterating, Brian.


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