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Re: Too Many Permissions Stripped In 1.7.35?
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin at cygwin dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 04:35:35 +0300
- Subject: Re: Too Many Permissions Stripped In 1.7.35?
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Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!
> given that SYSTEM has permissions to read and write all files
> anyway.
Not true.
If SYSTEM don't have access to files, it can't do anything at all.
This is not Linux, system isn't run from root.
> I don't see that a rule to add SYSTEM permissions to all files
> accomplishes anything which isn't already available anyway.
See above.
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 27.02.2015, <04:34>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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