Tom Rodman wrote: > The file "zam" below has slightly unusual windows permissions - > it does not inherit from it's parent dir, the owner of the > file has no ACES, another user "staffuser1" has full control.
Is staffuser1 an administrator? Cygwin opens files using the 'backup' privilege in order to emulate the POSIX semantics that root can access any file regardless of permissions. But of course the backup privilege requires the user to be an administrator so there's no real privilege leak, since an administrator can always take ownership of the object and set an arbitrary dacl. This started with 1.5.22: <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2006-11/msg00034.html> Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
