Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <00c401bff7cb$93c116b0$f7c723cb@lifelesswks> From: "Robert Collins" To: "Andrej Borsenkow" , References: <000301bff7c9$9405abb0$21c9ca95 AT mow DOT siemens DOT ru> Subject: Re: Something weird with security context on Win2k Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 23:07:03 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 runas does some 'funny' stuff. if you use /profile you will find the administrator registry hive gets loaded, other wise cygwin.bat will run in _your_ context with _administrator's_ SID! Rob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrej Borsenkow" To: Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 10:52 PM Subject: Something weird with security context on Win2k > I'm running Win2k Professional with 128bit and IE5.01SP1. It is part of NT4 > domain with DC being NT4SP6a. Cygwin was downloaded two days ago. Most of the > time I am logged in as domain user. > > I have local user with the same name as domain user. Because of known problems > with gdb in this case, I tried to use runas.exe to start a program under this > user account (runas is much like sudo on Unix): > > runas /user:localuser c:\cygwin\cygwin.bat > > For whatever reson bash is almost always started in security context of DOMAIN > user with this name and not LOCAL user. This happens after lomg delay. It is > easily seen - all my mounts (local to my domain account) are there, and id > reports domain user. Just once it was correctly started under local user - > that was why I noted it at all. > > I add, that I have admin privileges - so, if Cygwin incorrectly determines > personality, it probably can assume any user's identity (I am not so deep in > Win32 to express it in correct terms). > > Anybody has seen it? > > -andrej > > Have a nice DOS! > B >> > > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com > > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com