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Re: 23.0.60; uid problems on w32


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: 23.0.60; uid problems on w32
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:28:08 +0300

> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:04:34 +0100
> From: Jason Rumney <address@hidden>
> CC: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, address@hidden, 
>  address@hidden
> 
> Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
> > Are you sure windows does not have file ownership? If you look at the 
> > properties for a file, click on the "Security" tab and then then 
> > "Advanced" there is a tab saying owner.
> 
> Yes, you're right. I am currently using an XP Home system, which doesn't 
> have that "Security" tab

Right.  But NTFS security is still in place, of course, it's just that
you can't see it via the Windows Explorer.

> so I was going by the output of cacls, which for many files lists
> only groups as having permissions, no individual users.

Is that group Administrators, perhaps?  Files that belong to the
Administrator the user are frequently shown as belonging to the
_group_ Administrators.  (Yes, Windows can have objects that are owned
by groups, not users.)




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