Re: Admin can read user file from bash, despite permissions

2008-04-10 Thread Gmane User
Gmane User wrote: Brian Dessent wrote: Gmane User wrote: 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

Re: Admin can read user file from bash, despite permissions

2008-04-10 Thread Gmane User
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 10 04:19, Gmane User wrote: 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

Re: Admin can read user file from bash, despite permissions

2008-04-10 Thread Gmane User
Brian Dessent wrote: Gmane User wrote: 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 th

Admin can read user file from bash, despite permissions

2008-04-10 Thread Gmane User
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 diff

Re: A FAQ regarding defrag and permissions of nonadmin files?

2008-04-08 Thread Gmane User
Dave Korn wrote: > Andrew DeFaria wrote on 08 April 2008 16:51: >> Gmane User wrote: >>> About the log file, you're right. You need another "analyze" >>> after normal boot. It generates c:/FRAGLIST.HTM, which can be >>> saved as text. Turning

Re: A FAQ regarding defrag and permissions of nonadmin files?

2008-04-08 Thread Gmane User
Brian Dessent wrote: > Okay, so JkDefrag's boot time defrag does not appear to be a real > boot-time (offline) defrag. Anything dealing with the task > scheduler is way too late in the game, Win32 is already running at > that point. I wonder why anyone want to do that under a permissions-limited

Re: A FAQ regarding defrag and permissions of nonadmin files?

2008-04-08 Thread Gmane User
Brian Dessent wrote: > Gmane User wrote: > >> Let's make sure we're comparing the same situation. I've used bash to >> explicitly change permissions to go-rwx for most of my files. This is > > To be pedantic, you used chmod (or some other utility);

Re: A FAQ regarding defrag and permissions of nonadmin files?

2008-04-07 Thread Gmane User
Brian Dessent wrote: > Gmane User wrote: > >> I'm defragging the whole disk, so I need the defragger to be able >> to access all files from whatever account it runs under. > > I've never had any problem doing that without having to specifically > loosen any A

Re: A FAQ regarding defrag and permissions of nonadmin files?

2008-04-07 Thread Gmane User
Brian Dessent wrote: > Gmane User wrote: >> The defragger I used was JkDefrag. And there was the explanation, >> right in the online documentation. The files to be defragged need >> to be accessible by admin. I never suspected that something as >> system-wide as defra

A FAQ regarding defrag and permissions of nonadmin files?

2008-04-07 Thread Gmane User
Today was a revolutionary day. Ever since I started using cygwin years ago, I just assumed that defrag was doing whatever it does best, and that it was normal to have a whole whack of user application files un-defragged. This list of "fragged" files got enormous over the years, and almost all the

Re: Home directory

2007-10-03 Thread Gmane User
Dave Korn wrote: > On 02 October 2007 15:26, Gmain User wrote: > >> Brian Dessent dessent.net> writes: >>> Gmane User wrote: >>> >>>> it makes it hard to quickly scan for changes to "mv". Many software >>>> systems have cumu

Re: Home directory

2007-10-02 Thread Gmane User
Warren Young wrote: > Gmain User wrote: >> Thanks, Brian. I was actually asking in the context of not updating cygwin >> right away. Whether or not one could access up-to-date accumulation of >> release >> notes, possibly on the web. > > Cygwin doesn't have monolithic "releases". Every individ

Re: Home directory

2007-10-01 Thread Gmane User
Brian Dessent wrote: > Gmane User wrote: > >> If I were make c:/cygwin/home/UserName my home directory, what is the best >> way? >> Ssh only considers /etc/passwd, so it seems best to manually set it there, >> though I'd have to manually fix it each time I

Re: Home directory

2007-10-01 Thread Gmane User
Eric Blake wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > According to Gmain User on 10/1/2007 10:04 AM: >> Is there somewhere online >> where the release notes can be perused so that I can avoid updating >> cygwin right away? I usually find that an update is followed by a >> period

Re: Home directory

2007-10-01 Thread Gmane User
Eric Blake wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > According to Gmain User on 10/1/2007 10:04 AM: >> My coreutils 6.7-2 doesn't have a "-r" option for the "mv" command. I >> haven't been able to find release notes for the currrent coreutils >> 6.9-5 to see if it is simply a n

Home directory

2007-09-30 Thread Gmane User
ACcording to http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.home, the cygwin home directory is determined by the checking the following, in the order listed: 1. Windows HOME environment variable 2. /etc/passwd 3. HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH variables in the Windows environment 4. / I recently got a ne

Re: "cscope -d" can't find trailer offset if path contains space

2007-01-12 Thread Gmane User
Frodak wrote: > < - Original Message > < From: Gmane User > < To: cygwin > < Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 1:16:32 AM > < Subject: Re: "cscope -d" can't find trailer offset if path contains space > < > < By the way, Dav

Re: "cscope -d" can't find trailer offset if path contains space

2007-01-11 Thread Gmane User
By the way, Dave, if you're going to be poking & prodding mlscope, I was wondering if you might have time to look at a problem with its interface with vim. Mlscope works find from the command line, but simply hangs when I do a symbol search from within vim. Vim works fine with non-ml-cscope, howe

Re: Exclude cygwin folder from malware scans?

2007-01-10 Thread Gmane User
Fred Ma wrote: > After some surfing, I haven't found any evidence of malware targetting > cygwin. I'm considering excluding the massive file tree from scans > (AV, SpyBot, AdAware). I'd be interested in more experienced opinions > about this. Thanks. Thanks for your response. In summary, the l

Re: whole-word matches searches of mailing list archive & packages

2006-01-29 Thread Gmane User
Gmane User wrote: > Brian Dessent wrote: > >>Fred Ma wrote: >> >>>I was searching for whether the current cygwin has the "stat" command. >>>This is for future reference, since I am unable to update my old >>>cygwin installation at th

Re: whole-word matches searches of mailing list archive & packages

2006-01-28 Thread Gmane User
Brian Dessent wrote: > Fred Ma wrote: >>I was searching for whether the current cygwin has the "stat" command. >>This is for future reference, since I am unable to update my old >>cygwin installation at the moment. I eventually found that "stat" >>resides in coreutils, but I was wondering if there