Christian Franke wrote: > For members of Admin group, Cygwin 1.7 allows to overwrite files without > write permission, but Cygwin 1.5 does not.
You are the root user, this is Unix. Of course you can overwrite files without write permission. > Is this a intended change of 1.7 ? Yep, think so. cheers, DaveK -- 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