Ilya Basin <basinilya <at> gmail.com> writes: > From cygwin shell I'm able to read and write files even though my > Windows user has no permission for it. I tried `chmod` and to deny > everything for Everyone in the Windows dialog, but it didn't help. How > is it possible? The permission is granted via ACL (note the + at the right of the permissions from ls). ================v > -r--------+ 1 Administrators ???????? 0 Jul 30 19:23 aaa.txt ================^ To check the ACL on that file: getfacl aaa.txt Regards, Achim. -- 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