Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > given that SYSTEM has permissions to read and write all files > anyway.
Not true. If SYSTEM don't have access to files, it can't do anything at all. This is not Linux, system isn't run from root. > I don't see that a rule to add SYSTEM permissions to all files > accomplishes anything which isn't already available anyway. See above. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 27.02.2015, <04:34> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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