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: <114780-220021028153656764@M2W089.mail2web.com> X-Priority: 3 Reply-To: lhall AT rfk DOT com X-Originating-IP: 209.113.174.244 From: "lhall AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com" To: mseritan AT jacent DOT com, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Problem with Station/Desktop permissions Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 11:36:56 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Oct 2002 15:36:56.0927 (UTC) FILETIME=[88F4CEF0:01C26EE0] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g98Fb9d08115 You're not an expert? Oh well then never mind. We only want experts! ;-) (Just kidding) Take a look at http://cygwin.com/contrib.html w.r.t. contributing a patch. It should get through the basics. I expect the maintainers of the Cygwin code to do this similar function would prefer a patch to that code rather than linking in some other library so if it's all the same to you, I'd suggest you pursue that approach. Thanks for your time and input! Larry Original Message: ----------------- From: Marius Seritan mseritan AT jacent DOT com Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 08:06:19 -0700 To: lhall AT rfk DOT com, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Problem with Station/Desktop permissions Larry and cygwin-list readers, In my own code I am using the fksec C++ library, http://www.mvps.org/win32/security/fksec.html. I am not sure if people are willing to link that library in cygwin. In the affirmative I can suggest a patch to the list that would add the appropriate ACEs to the Station and Desktop SDs, instead of replacing them with a null SD. Note that I am not an NT security expert, I can only contribute some code that is working for me. Marius ----- Original Message ----- From: To: ; Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 7:54 AM Subject: RE: Problem with Station/Desktop permissions Hi Marius, I don't believe there is any active work going on in the area that you mention. It seems to change and improve on an "as-needed" basis based on bug reports and the like. If you are interested in suggesting a patch, I'm sure the list would be interested in reviewing your ideas. Larry Original Message: ----------------- From: Marius Seritan mseritan AT jacent DOT com Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 14:32:47 -0700 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Problem with Station/Desktop permissions From what I see from the sources, cygwin is also adjusting the permissions on the station\desktop. The approach taken in spawn.cc is a lot more radical though, the security descriptor is basically blown away. This seems to break my code. Has anybody else encountered this problem? Are there plans to move to a more nuanced approach when adjusting the permissions on the window stations/desktop? Thanks for any pointers/comments. Marius Seritan Engineering mseritan AT jacent DOT com -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . -- 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/