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Re: I'd like to have an unreadable file
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Larry Hall wrote:
It's a known fact that Cygwin allows users that are members of the
Adminstrators group access to any file, regardless of its
permissions.
Thank you for the quick reply. (Though I find it scary that Cygwin
can escalate privileges so very much.)
I guess the workaround would be to simply test the script by running
as a user who is not in the Administrators group.
--
Tim McDaniel, tmcd@panix.com
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