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Re: Admin can access all files in nonadmin user cygwin file tree
- From: andy <AndyMHancock at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 02:31:17 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: Re: Admin can access all files in nonadmin user cygwin file tree
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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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