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From: Bill Stewart <bstewart@iname.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: How to become root/root (0/0)
Date: Thu, 09 May 2019 14:45:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANV9t=SOqauB8uV9vqX9MiNKW7-xYt2vv-J8K2UnrrDhwnBAJA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1529177562.20190509150945@yandex.ru>

On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 6:20 AM Andrey Repin wrote:

> Again, there's simply no equivalent of "god user" from *NIX in Windows
> permissions system.

That's not really correct. An account that is a member of the
Administrators local group (localized name can be different, SID is
S-1-5-32-544) is a root/superuser equivalent.

It is true that some objects have permissions that prevent Administrators
from accessing them, but any member of Administrators can take
ownership/change permissions/run as SYSTEM and access those objects.

Regards,

Bill

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-05-09 14:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-09  9:01 Henning
2019-05-09 12:20 ` Andrey Repin
2019-05-09 12:31   ` LRN
2019-05-09 12:50     ` Andrey Repin
2019-05-09 14:45   ` Bill Stewart [this message]
2019-05-09 14:53     ` LRN
2019-05-10 14:05       ` Andrey Repin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-05-08 13:50 Henning
2019-05-08 14:33 ` Erik Soderquist
2019-05-08 14:45 ` Chris Johmson
2019-05-09  8:35 ` Andrey Repin

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