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Subject:	Re: No effect of SE_BACKUP_NAME privilege on cygwin?
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On Mar  1 23:06, Christian Franke wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >  A Cygwin application's main thread is not running under the
> >process token, but under a derived impersonation token.  This is true
> >for every thread in Cygwin.  So, instead of using OpenProcessToken, you
> >should be able to accomplish what you want by calling OpenThreadToken.
> 
> Yes, it works, thanks!
> 
> Already tried this before but gave up too early, because it didn't work 
> in the non-cygwin version ;-)
> I didn't realize that the main thread has no token by default...

Yes, that's a bit irritating.

> >However, I'm wondering if a Cygwin application should always try by
> >itself to request the SE_BACKUP_NAME privilege.  It would simplify file
> >access for all privileged processes.  Hmm.
> >  
> 
> Sounds reasonable.
> SE_RESTORE_NAME is requested somewhere in the code, but not SE_BACKUP_NAME.

I've applied a patch.


Corinna

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