Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/12/09/14:38:22
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 12:10:58PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 03:46:31PM -0800, Ryan T. Sammartino wrote:
> >
> > As you can see, sshd is running, and it does accept connections:
> >
> > PID PPID PGID WINPID TTY UID STIME COMMAND
> > 1392 1 1392 1392 ? 18 15:07:57 /usr/sbin/sshd
> >
> >
> > Here is my entry in /etc/passwds, somewhat censored:
> >
> > ryans:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:18:10513:Ryan T.
> > Sammartino,U-*******\ryans,S-1-5-21-*******:/home/ryans:/bin/bash
> >
> >
> > Now, my UID is 18 so that I could get cron working
>
> UID 18 is reserved for SYSTEM. You can't get user authentication
> working for your account just by giving yourself uid 18. Run sshd
> as service under LocalSystem account. Revert your /etc/passwd to
> use UID 18 for SYSTEM. cron needs the same setting, btw.
This is probably my ignorance of NT/W2K security coming through, but
when I run things as "LocalSystem", I can't kill them either with "kill"
(I get "Not owner") or with W2K's Task List ("Access Denied").
How do I kill processes that I've started that got "promoted" to
LocalSystem?
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