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So I have a folder with some crazy (Windows) ownership privileges. I have the folder mounted on a Linux guest OS virtual machine shared folder. I can delete files from the folder using rm -f, however I cannot write anything there.

How can that be possible with file permissions in Windows?

BTW: I can't delete the folder from Windows either -- Go figure...

Edit: People want more details about the setup, so here you go:

The host is Windows 8.1 and the guest is Debian 7. The crazy folder that I am talking about is in the WindowsApps hidden folder under Program Files. It makes sense that it has crazy privileges... I am just wondering how they are being carried through to Linux like this.

I am working on getting some privileges data that was requested.

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In my experience as a sysadmin, I load up windows directories with linux so that I can delete or add files without having to worry about the permissions. That is a security issue.

Jeff Clayton
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