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Re: cygwin potentially corrupting permissions?
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: Linda Walsh <cygwin at tlinx dot org>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 04:46:48 +0300
- Subject: Re: cygwin potentially corrupting permissions?
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- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Greetings, Linda Walsh!
> Andrey Repin wrote:
>> Your system seems to be mangled. There should be no "root" user.
>>
>> Also, please avoid top posting as per list rules.
> ----
> You are missing one? Don't tell me, you have
> Administrator instead?
No, I have my own account, that's quite enough.
> Maybe that's why you see Greg's messages as top-posted, where
> as I saw him as interleaving his response w/what I said? ;-)
> If you have Win7-Pro or above, you can rename Admin
> and Guest accounts --
You can rename them in NT4, too. Just sayin'.
> which is recommended for security reasons.
Obscurity has no relation to security.
Oh, and these both are disabled on my systems.
> If you read windows 'rules', you'd know that... (so many rules
> to read...really hard for someone to keep up)...
There's no such rules as "rename default accounts".
It makes no sense and bears no reason.
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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Friday, September 25, 2015 04:43:28
Sorry for my terrible english...
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