> That's not really a goal. The SYSTEM permissions are kind of useless > anyway, given that SYSTEM has permissions to read and write all files > anyway. I don't see that a rule to add SYSTEM permissions to all files > accomplishes anything which isn't already available anyway.
I don't think this is true; see below when running as the system account: V:\>echo %USERNAME% BERNS-WINDOWS$ V:\>icacls V:\Test V:\Test DOMAIN\Administrator:(OI)(CI)(F) Successfully processed 1 files; Failed processing 0 files V:\>cd V:\Test Access is denied. V:\> -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple