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Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 10:44:43 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: sshd/cron seteuid() problem in latest CVS
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On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 11:25:53AM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote:
> After some more digging, I believe that I have found the root cause to
> the above problem.  The new way, via NetGetDCName(), causes two extra
> backslashes to be prepended to the PDC name as demonstrated by the
> attached test program:
> 
>     NetServerEnum PDC = PALO-ALTO-PDC
>     NetGetDCName PDC = \\PALO-ALTO-PDC
> 
> This causes the NetUserGetGroups() call in get_user_groups() to SEGV
> (at least under gdb) and hence, ultimately create_token() fails.

Ok, that explains it.

> My WAG regarding domain vs. workgroup was correct because the workgroup
> path through this code does not cause extra backslashes to be prepended.
> 
> I will submit a patch to cygwin-patches to correct this problem.

Thanks,
Corinna

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