Re: I'd like to have an unreadable file

On Apr 30 22:19, Eric Blake wrote: > Tim McDaniel panix.com> writes: > > Thank you for the quick reply. (Though I find it scary that Cygwin > > can escalate privileges so very much.) > > Cygwin is not escalating privileges. Rather, what is scary is that > Windows provides that many privilges to

Re: I'd like to have an unreadable file

Tim McDaniel wrote: I'd like to test a script by giving it an unreadable file as an argument. I usually log in as a user, but one that's in the Administrators group. I made the file (a text file containing just "hello") owned by user Administrator with absolutely no permissions for anyone else.

Re: I'd like to have an unreadable file

Tim McDaniel panix.com> writes: > > 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 Cygwi

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 th

Re: I'd like to have an unreadable file

Tim McDaniel wrote: I'd like to test a script by giving it an unreadable file as an argument. I usually log in as a user, but one that's in the Administrators group. I made the file (a text file containing just "hello") owned by user Administrator with absolutely no permissions for anyone else.

I'd like to have an unreadable file

I'd like to test a script by giving it an unreadable file as an argument. I usually log in as a user, but one that's in the Administrators group. I made the file (a text file containing just "hello") owned by user Administrator with absolutely no permissions for anyone else. In Windows Explorer