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Re: ntsec odds and ends
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 13:51:58 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: ntsec odds and ends
- Reply-to: cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:24:13PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 01:10:33PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >> No problem, I'll rewrite this (after actually looking at the code this
> >> time). However, at least on my machine, most of the files, especially in
> >> /cygdrive/c, are owned by the Administrators group. If it's not in
> >> /etc/passwd, most files show up with "????????" for the user, which is not
> >> very informative...
> >
> >Sure but in this case the admins group is treated as a user since it's
> >in the user entry of the file's security descriptor.
> >
> >I think we never get that right. The problem is that the ls entries
> >only are 8 chars long, not enough to be really informative. Whatever
> >you put in there ("unknown", "????????", "mkpasswd", "run mkpa",
> >"dumbass"), you will deterministically get confused users.
>
> Hey. "dumbass". That may be the best suggstion yet. I'd definitely
> want to get rid of that if I saw it! I'd probably spend some time
> researching how to do it.
>
> I like it!
> cgf
Hey, getting back to my "ls" idea - how about a flashing bright white
"dumbass" on a red background? That's bound to get anyone's attention :-D
Igor
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