Re: Admin can access all files in nonadmin user cygwin file tree

2016-04-19 Thread andy
Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > On Windows it's not sufficient to be admin to have all admin access. > Applications have to request certain privileges explicitely and many > native tools on Windows just don't do that, so they fail. The > Cygwin DLL requests these privilieges for Cygwin exe

Re: Admin can access all files in nonadmin user cygwin file tree

2016-04-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 19 02:31, andy wrote: > Erik Soderquist gmail.com> writes: > > As administrator is the Windows counterpart to root, yes, I would > > expect this behavior when starting a mintty session as administrator > > OK. I wasn't sure because, depending on what machine I'm using, > Windows 7 sometim

Re: Admin can access all files in nonadmin user cygwin file tree

2016-04-18 Thread andy
Erik Soderquist gmail.com> writes: > As administrator is the Windows counterpart to root, yes, I would > expect this behavior when starting a mintty session as administrator OK. I wasn't sure because, depending on what machine I'm using, Windows 7 sometimes doesn't allow administrator to access

Re: Admin can access all files in nonadmin user cygwin file tree

2016-04-17 Thread Erik Soderquist
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 Wi

Admin can access all files in nonadmin user cygwin file tree

2016-04-17 Thread andy
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 t