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Re: backup privileges [was: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.22-1]
On Nov 30 09:50, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> Remember how much effort was spent trying to fix Cygwin to work for
> unprivileged users? Do you now, all of a sudden, want to break expected
> behavior for privileged users?
I'm sorry but I really don't understand the problem. Cygwin allows
administrators to do more stuff than what they usually can do when
running a DOS shell, which is, doing stuff which they can do as admins
under any POSIX system. POSIX apps running under a privileged account
(and the users) usually expect to be able to do stuff which they can't
when running under a non-admin account, for instance, cd'ing into
directories which have, say, permissions set to a-rwx. This will
actually *help* admins to restore screwed up installations. This is IMO
the right thing to do. I didn't expect to get told that this is
"breaking" something. It's really weird. Usually Cygwin gets kicked
for non-POSIXy behaviour. Apparently there's no way to do something
right :(
Corinna
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