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* why cygwin have access to all the users in Windows
@ 2011-05-12  2:20 solde9
  2011-05-12  5:54 ` Corinna Vinschen
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From: solde9 @ 2011-05-12  2:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi I am newbie to cygwin. I am surprised at how cygwin have access to those
directories belonging to users with a password and private access, that
normally cannot be accessed from the normal Windows environment. How this
happens?
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* Re: why cygwin have access to all the users in Windows
  2011-05-12  2:20 why cygwin have access to all the users in Windows solde9
@ 2011-05-12  5:54 ` Corinna Vinschen
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Corinna Vinschen @ 2011-05-12  5:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cygwin

On May 11 19:20, solde9 wrote:
> 
> Hi I am newbie to cygwin. I am surprised at how cygwin have access to those
> directories belonging to users with a password and private access, that
> normally cannot be accessed from the normal Windows environment. How this
> happens?

Every admin has these rights, but they are usually disabled in 
the user token.  See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa446619%28VS.85%29.aspx


Corinna

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