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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 08:39:54 -0400
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Subject: Re: Filtered tokens
From: Patrick Julien <pjulien@gmail.com>
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OK, I understand why it's the privileged token but why is it still in sessi=
on 0?

Also, it doesn't really explain why the files are all installed with
ownership set to me

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Corinna Vinschen
<corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> On Apr 26 15:34, Patrick Julien wrote:
>> I have read the page found at
>> http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html but I still see the
>> following 2 issues with filtered tokens as implemented by Vista/7 when
>> used by cygwin.
>>
>> When I say filtered tokens, I'm talking about the dual token strategy
>> these systems use to keep administrators running under non admin
>> privileges most of the time.
>
> You mean UAC.
>
>> 1. When using ssh/sshd, the token assigned to a user on login is the
>> fully privileged one.
>
> Deliberately. =A0Otherwise you can't perform admin tasks from a remote
> session.
>
>> And it doesn't matter if I am using keys or a password to login. =A0I am
>> running under my "full privileged" token. =A0Setting the password using
>> "password -R" has no effect either.
>
> I would be surprised if it had. =A0After all it's only a single account
> with a crippled and a full token. =A0I'm surprised anybody wants the
> crippled token in a remote SSH session.
>
>
> Corinna
>
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