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Re: why cygwin have access to all the users in Windows
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 07:54:02 +0200
- Subject: Re: why cygwin have access to all the users in Windows
- References: <31599578.post@talk.nabble.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On May 11 19:20, solde9 wrote:
>
> Hi I am newbie to cygwin. I am surprised at how cygwin have access to those
> directories belonging to users with a password and private access, that
> normally cannot be accessed from the normal Windows environment. How this
> happens?
Every admin has these rights, but they are usually disabled in
the user token. See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa446619%28VS.85%29.aspx
Corinna
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