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Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 16:52:34 +0300
From: Baurjan Ismagulov <ibr AT ata DOT cs DOT hun DOT edu DOT tr>
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Subject: Re: setreuid
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Hello, Corinna.

On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 15:50:59, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > This works if I grant "Erstellen eines Tokenobjekts" to ZAISAN\ibr. What
> > is going on?
> That's correct.  Did you read http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html?

The problem is not to read, the problem is to understand :) . I had
thought that the first three privileges were enough to change user with
setreuid alone without a password.


> Btw., if you're planning to use that account as logon account, don't
> give these rights to that account.  That's very dangerous.

Because of possible privilege escalation, or are there any other
implications?


> Start a
> service under system account as inetd and let it handle the user context
> switch.

Thanks for the tip, I'll do so.


With kind regards,
Baurjan.

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