Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/01/21/04:38:39
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 07:02:51PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> At 12:33 AM 1/20/02 +0100, you wrote:
> >I'm not quite sure if I understand. If the setgid() is made
> >while a impersonation is active, the setgid() should affect
> >the impersonation token.
>
> No, no, it changes the process token. syscalls.cc:
> if (!OpenProcessToken (GetCurrentProcess (),
You're right. The function should affect the impersonation token
if impersonation is active, and the process token otherwise.
> >Good question. However, I don't think it's unsafe to change
> >the primary group. If it was successful, further securable
> >objects are created using the correct primary group. If it
> >wasn't successful, nothing has changed, nothing got worse.
>
> Yes, but it's undetermined (except if the caller really knows
> the Groups), which isn't so good. By using myself->gid you could
> change the primary group on securable objects to what it should be.
> BTW, does the primary group need to be in the Groups there too?
No. I understand the reasoning behind your arguments now.
Perhaps you're right and we could also live without setting
the primary group.
Corinna
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