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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 16:44:33 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: How do I figure out why LogonUserA is failing?
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In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20011113100254.02224a60@pop.ma.ultranet.com>; from lhall@rfk.com on Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 10:06:25AM -0500

On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 10:06:25AM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
> At 09:59 AM 11/13/2001, Mark Paulus wrote:
> >So,
> >
> >If I understand this little diddy, one shouldn't just up and do a
> >"login root"?  If that is the case, then what does one do to "become"
> >another user?  I have gotten it to work by telnetting back to my machine
> >and logging in as root that way, but that is rather "klunky", in my opinion.

You're right... from a POSIX system point of view.  However, we're
on a Windows system.  NT has a completely different way of handling
security issues.  Cygwin is just a user space DLL on top of Win32
and (sometimes) native NT API.

You know the `Run as user' functionality on W2K/XP?  It's done the
same "klunky" way as if you use Cygwins' telnet/rlogin/ssh to
change user context.  It's using a service process running under
SYSTEM account.  Surprise, surprise...

Corinna

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