Subject: Re: crond for CYGWIN32?
From: [email-masked] (Corinna Vinschen)

13 Oct 1998 00:04:50 -0700
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[SMTP:[email-masked]] wrote:
> 
> >The worst problem, 'cause it's persistent:
> >Under WinNT, you can't create a child process as another
> >user, if you don't know the password, even if the parent
> >process runs as Administrator or, in case of services,
> >as LocalSystem.
> In the NT 4.0 Ressource-Kit utils there's a Util called SU.EXE. You
> can switch the user context like under Unix.

You are right, there is a SU.EXE, 

BUT:

You have to know the password, as Administrator, too...
Also the SU-program can't undermine the C2-Security of the
WindowsNT-Kernel.

The problem remains the same :-[

Corinna

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