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Re: File Permissions - Yet Another Question / Clarification
- From: Bryan Berns <bryan dot berns at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 14:27:17 -0400
- Subject: Re: File Permissions - Yet Another Question / Clarification
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Andrey,
>> In the particular case of SSH, is there any way to make SSH ignore
>> these permissions?
> Thanks, I laughed.
Thanks for the less-than-helpful response. A "no" would have sufficed
if that is indeed the case.
>> and obviously
>> causing us pain given the permission weirdness. Removing the
>> administrative groups would be undesirable for us since they assist in
>> our administrative team doing home directory moves across sites.
> Administrators can access anything they want regardless of permissions, if
> they really need to do it.
> This is not a valid argument.
In the real world in large corporations with focus on security,
"Administrators" is typically a tiered or least privilege arrangement.
All administrators are not created equally.
Thanks,
Bryan
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