diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
index aafe076b1..dd49aaa30 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+Wed Aug 15 12:43:00 2001  Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
+
+	* times.cc (utimes): Revert previous change. Just open the
+	file using FILE_WRITE_ATTRIBUTES instead of GENERIC_WRITE
+	on NT/W2K.
+
 Wed Aug 15 12:18:00 2001  Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
 
 	* security.cc (set_nt_attribute): Return always -1 in case of
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/times.cc b/winsup/cygwin/times.cc
index 29327e213..860cc55b4 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/times.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/times.cc
@@ -449,8 +449,6 @@ utimes (const char *path, struct timeval *tvp)
   int res = 0;
   struct timeval tmp[2];
   path_conv win32 (path);
-  PSECURITY_DESCRIPTOR sd = NULL;
-  DWORD sd_size;
 
   if (win32.error)
     {
@@ -461,8 +459,10 @@ utimes (const char *path, struct timeval *tvp)
 
   /* MSDN suggests using FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS for accessing
      the times of directories.  FIXME: what about Win95??? */
+  /* Note: It's not documented in MSDN that FILE_WRITE_ATTRIBUTES is
+     sufficient to change the timestamps... */
   HANDLE h = CreateFileA (win32.get_win32 (),
-			  GENERIC_WRITE,
+			  iswinnt ? FILE_WRITE_ATTRIBUTES : GENERIC_WRITE,
 			  FILE_SHARE_READ | FILE_SHARE_WRITE,
 			  &sec_none_nih,
 			  OPEN_EXISTING,
@@ -477,38 +477,13 @@ utimes (const char *path, struct timeval *tvp)
 	  /* What we can do with directories more? */
 	  res = 0;
 	}
-      else if (allow_ntsec && win32.has_acls ())
-        {
-	  /* The following hack allows setting the correct filetime
-	     on NTFS with ntsec ON even when the file is R/O for the
-	     current user. This solves the `cp -p' problem and allows
-	     a more UNIX like behaviour. Basically we save the file's
-	     current security descriptor, change the file access so
-	     that we have write access (if possible) and if that worked
-	     fine, reset the old security descriptor at the end of the
-	     function. */
-	  sd_size = 4096;
-	  sd = (PSECURITY_DESCRIPTOR) alloca (sd_size);
-	  if (read_sd (win32.get_win32 (), sd, &sd_size) <= 0)
-	    sd = NULL;
-	  else if (set_file_attribute (TRUE, win32.get_win32 (), 0600))
-	    sd = NULL;
-	  else
-	    h = CreateFileA (win32.get_win32 (),
-			     GENERIC_WRITE,
-			     FILE_SHARE_READ | FILE_SHARE_WRITE,
-			     &sec_none_nih,
-			     OPEN_EXISTING,
-			     FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL | FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS,
-			     0);
-	}
       else
 	{
 	  res = -1;
 	  __seterrno ();
 	}
     }
-  if (h != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
+  else
     {
       if (tvp == 0)
 	{
@@ -544,9 +519,6 @@ utimes (const char *path, struct timeval *tvp)
       CloseHandle (h);
     }
 
-  if (sd)
-    write_sd (win32.get_win32 (), sd, sd_size);
-
   syscall_printf ("%d = utimes (%s, %x); (h%d)",
 		  res, path, tvp, h);
   return res;