Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <092f01c2192d$c61b8430$eb6610ac@lefeuvrewk2> From: "Corwin" To: References: <077b01c21907$6280d130$eb6610ac AT lefeuvrewk2> <20020621133535 DOT H22705 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> Subject: Re: qpopper authentication problem Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 16:13:10 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Thanks a lot, this was exactly what I missed ;o) I was launching popper.exe from user account instead of system account. Works great now ;o) Thanx again Thomas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Corinna Vinschen" To: Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 1:35 PM Subject: Re: qpopper authentication problem > On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 11:38:17AM +0200, Corwin wrote: > > I have a problem regarding user authentication using qpopper. > > My password is rejected whatever I do. > > I tried with several users that are well defined in /etc/passwd and the = > > result is always the same. > > I tried with ntsec enabled and disabled, no way. > > > > Please could someone help me to solve this problem ? Maybe there is = > > something I don't understand... > > > > I think it is a general cygwin related authentication problem (a really = > > common problem ;o) > > Concerning Authentication mechanism in cygwin, may i ask if it would be = > > possible that someone write a document about this issue ??? > > I'd do it myself if i had the skill which is not the case unfortunatly. = > > And this problem is so recurrent that I think it would be worth the work = > > .. > > Besides http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html there's not much > to talk about. Cygwin authentication depends on the same rules as > Windows authentication. A process which want to change user context > with password authentication needs "Act as part of the operating system", > "Replace process level token" user rights, a process which wants to > change user context just by using setuid() (using NT's NTCreateToken()) > needs the "Create token object" and "Replace process level token" user > rights. This means basically that under default conditions only > SYSTEM has the permissions to change user context. Normally you > should start such a process as service. > > Corinna > > -- > Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to > Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > Red Hat, Inc. > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > ______________________________________________________________________________ ifrance.com, l'email gratuit le plus complet de l'Internet ! vos emails depuis un navigateur, en POP3, sur Minitel, sur le WAP... http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/email.emailif -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/