Admin can read user file from bash, despite permissions

[Gmane User]

Gmane User wrote:
> Brian Dessent wrote:
>> 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)
> 
> 
> Thanks for reiterating, Brian.

Oh, I should have mentioned that Diskeeper probably uses the privilege since it managed to defrag the files that the built-in defragger, JkDefrag, and Ultra Defragmenter could not.


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