From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 71932 invoked by alias); 21 Dec 2019 03:04:51 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 71920 invoked by uid 89); 21 Dec 2019 03:04:51 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=mandatory, authenticated, cloud, Cloud X-HELO: mailsrv.cs.umass.edu Received: from mailsrv.cs.umass.edu (HELO mailsrv.cs.umass.edu) (128.119.240.136) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sat, 21 Dec 2019 03:04:50 +0000 Received: from [192.168.0.232] (rrcs-50-74-66-18.nyc.biz.rr.com [50.74.66.18]) by mailsrv.cs.umass.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7AF26401AF4A; Fri, 20 Dec 2019 22:04:48 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: moss@cs.umass.edu Subject: Re: A permissions puzzle From: Eliot Moss To: cygwin References: <23ecb190-1382-ed1e-20f2-93b44ddf641f@cs.umass.edu> Message-ID: <6b40705e-61a8-5edb-5d2d-866012c322cd@cs.umass.edu> Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2019 14:35:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <23ecb190-1382-ed1e-20f2-93b44ddf641f@cs.umass.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-12/txt/msg00227.txt.bz2 Addendum: here is output from id: uid=197609(moss) gid=197609(moss) groups=197609(moss),401408(Medium Mandatory Level),197610(Cygwin),197611(docker-users),559(Performance Log Users),545(Users),4(INTERACTIVE),66049(CONSOLE LOGON),11(Authenticated Users),15(This Organization),68585(MicrosoftAccount+moss@cs.umass.edu),113(Local account),4095(CurrentSession),66048(LOCAL),262180(Cloud Account Authentication) This has 113 (Local account) but _not_ 114, the administrators account. This may explain things. But it seems I used to get admin privileges when logging in. Maybe I used to start XWin as admin, and so the magical token was inherited? I'll check on that ... EM -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple