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Subject: Re: Admin can access all files in nonadmin user cygwin file tree
From: Erik Soderquist <ErikSoderquist AT gmail DOT com>
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On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 11:11 PM, andy wrote:
> When I open a mintty terminal as administrator, I am able to access all the
> files in the file tree rooted at ~nonAdminUserAccount, even though that
> directory & all subdirectories have mode bits drwx------+.  Is this to be
> expected?  I'm using Windows 7 and "cygcheck -cd" shows version 2.2.1-1 for
> the cygwin entry.

As administrator is the Windows counterpart to root, yes, I would
expect this behavior when starting a mintty session as administrator

-- Erik

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