Creating a file using "> newfile", "icacls newfile" shows various DENY settings:
newfile NULL SID:(DENY)(Rc,S,WEA,X,DC) JCPR-DELL-3\peter:(R,W,D,WDAC,WO) NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(DENY)(S,X) BUILTIN\Administrators:(DENY)(S,X) BUILTIN\Users:(DENY)(S,X) JCPR-DELL-3\None:(R) NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(RX,W) BUILTIN\Administrators:(RX,W) BUILTIN\Users:(RX,W) Everyone:(R) Whereas on a file created from Windows Explorer I see: New Text Document.txt BUILTIN\Users:(I)(M) Everyone:(I)(RX) JCPR-DELL-3\peter:(I)(F) BUILTIN\Administrators:(I)(F) NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(I)(F) "mkpasswd" and "mkgroup" both show I (user "peter") have expected entries in /etc/passwd and /etc/group (I attach both) Running "whoami" commands from powershell shows: PS E:\temp> whoami /groups GROUP INFORMATION ----------------- Group Name Type SID Attributes ============================================================= ================ ============ ================================================== Everyone Well-known group S-1-1-0 Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group NT AUTHORITY\Local account and member of Administrators group Well-known group S-1-5-114 Group used for deny only BUILTIN\Administrators Alias S-1-5-32-544 Group used for deny only BUILTIN\Performance Log Users Alias S-1-5-32-559 Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group BUILTIN\Users Alias S-1-5-32-545 Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group NT AUTHORITY\INTERACTIVE Well-known group S-1-5-4 Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group CONSOLE LOGON Well-known group S-1-2-1 Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users Well-known group S-1-5-11 Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group NT AUTHORITY\This Organization Well-known group S-1-5-15 Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group NT AUTHORITY\Local account Well-known group S-1-5-113 Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group LOCAL Well-known group S-1-2-0 Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group NT AUTHORITY\NTLM Authentication Well-known group S-1-5-64-10 Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group Mandatory Label\Medium Mandatory Level Label S-1-16-8192 PS E:\temp> whoami jcpr-dell-3\peter PS E:\temp> whoami /user USER INFORMATION ---------------- User Name SID ================= ============================================= jcpr-dell-3\peter S-1-5-21-1468824806-2062748802-729869357-100 I also attach cygcheck.out
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