Corinna Vinschen-2 writes: > On Nov 10 07:22, aputerguy wrote: > > I was <sigh> unaware of that "feature" > > However, after turning it off,
> Don't do that. There's more to this user right than you see at first > sight. A lot of stuff might not work anymore as you expected in Windows. Hmmm... even if I just turn it off for ordinary users? I read through some of the Microsoft documentation and I didn't see any such warning. I guess I'm unsure of how to secure a machine easily and properly in Windows in a way that is not just loaded with ACL's (you don't need to answer the general question here since I will ask it more broadly in another thread) >> While in Cygwin, for any value of <any string> whether the file/directory >> exists or not, I seem to get the following rather than an error message. >> -rw-r--r-- 1 1006 513 0 Nov 30 2006 dir/<any string> >> where 1006:513 = UID:GID > Your own user account is in the administrators group, by any chance? Mine is, but I was testing this in a bash.exe window that is 'runas' another *non-administrator* user (belongs only to group Users) Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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 -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Differences-between-%27ls%27-permissions-*nix-vs-cygwin-tp26280017p26285839.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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
