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Subject: Re: Will all SIDs fit into |SECURITY_MAX_SID_SIZE| bytes ? / was:
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On Feb 25 22:04, Roland Mainz via Cygwin wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 7:57 PM Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
> <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
> >
> > On Feb 24 15:38, Roland Mainz via Cygwin wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 8:11 PM Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
> > > <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
> > > > On Feb 22 18:38, Roland Mainz via Cygwin wrote:
> > > > > If I switch the current user's group with /usr/bin/newgrp, how can a
> > > > > (native) Win32 process use
> > > > > |GetTokenInformation(GetCurrentThreadToken(), ...)| to find out which
> > > > > group is the new "current group" (e.g. which |TokenInformationClass|
> > > > > should I use) ?
> > > >
> > > >   PSID sidbuf = (PSID) alloca (SECURITY_MAX_SID_SIZE);
> > > [snip]
> > >
> > > Win32/NT API question: All known SIDs will fit into
> > > |SECURITY_MAX_SID_SIZE| bytes, right ? I'm asking because right now
> > > the ms-nfs41-client code assumes that all SIDs use a variable amount
> > > of memory, and we always have to ask the Win32/NT API about the number
> > > of bytes to allocate. If |SECURITY_MAX_SID_SIZE| is the global maximum
> > > limit for all Windows versions, then we could simplify the code a
> > > lot...
> >
> > Yes.  ACLs are size restricted to 64K, though, but that shouldn't be
> > much of a problem usally.
> 
> Erm... why ACLs? I was asking about the memory allocation size for an SID.

I know, and I wrote "Yes".

I mentioned ACLs because ACLs consist of SIDs and if all SIDs take
SECURITY_MAX_SID_SIZE bytes... well, no worries.


Corinna

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