I have a power user file that has go-rwx. However, the administrator account can "less" the contents from a bash command line. This is both logging onto Windows 2000 as admin, as well as ssh'ing in (loopback) from the power user log-in session. The administrator can also "mv" the file to a different name, but it can't create a new file in the same folder e.g. by "cp".
CACLS shows an extensive set of permissions for the power user owner, but only READ_CONTROL, FILE_READ_EA, & FILE_READ_ATTRIBUTES for LaptopName\None and Everyone. I've come across nothing on the web (yet) about a special privilege that allows administrators the level of access that it seems to have. In fact, if I just open up a DOS shell as Administrator, I cannot "more" the said file. So it seems to be specific to Cygwin rather than Windows. I've read up on ntsec in the Cygwin user guide, but nothing seems to explain the admin access to the file. However, it is new material to me, so I might be missing it. If the explanation is there, could someone point to the particular paragraph, and perhaps elaborate on how that explains the access I observe? If the explanation isn't there, what is the explanation? Thanks. -- 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/
