Gmane User wrote: > CACLS shows an extensive set of permissions for the power user owner, > but only READ_CONTROL, FILE_READ_EA, & FILE_READ_ATTRIBUTES for > LaptopName\None and Everyone. I've come across nothing on the web > (yet) about a special privilege that allows administrators the level > of access that it seems to have. In fact, if I just open up a DOS > shell as Administrator, I cannot "more" the said file. So it seems to > be specific to Cygwin rather than Windows.
Um: <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-04/msg00218.html> This is the relevant part: > Cygwin uses this to simulate the unix semantics of "root" (i.e. total > access to anything regardless of permissions) Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
