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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 09:33:46 -0400
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Subject: Re: Filtered tokens
From: Patrick Julien <pjulien AT gmail DOT com>
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On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Corinna Vinschen
<corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
> On Apr 27 08:39, Patrick Julien wrote:
>> OK, I understand why it's the privileged token but why is it still in se=
ssion 0?
>
> Because it's started in session 0. =A0Creating our own session for each u=
ser
> could result in an enormous memory leak.

That's how the regular logon does it, don't see why it has to leak.
Running in session 0 means it's possible for non-elevated users, i.e.,
users that aren't admins, just regular users, to launch shatter
attacks on services.

>
>> Also, it doesn't really explain why the files are all installed with
>> ownership set to me
>
> That's because setup works that way. =A0If you want the ownership of the
> files being administrator, start setup as administrator.
>

Gee thanks, yeah, I got that, I still think it's a security issue,
that is, a bug.  See the original post, any program can read/write to
any executable in cygwin without escalation because I'm the owner.

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