Re: Something weird with security context on Win2k

["Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>]

runas does some 'funny' stuff.

if you use /profile you will find the administrator registry hive gets
loaded, other wise cygwin.bat will run in _your_ context with
_administrator's_ SID!

Rob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrej Borsenkow" <Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru>
To: <Cygwin@Sourceware.Cygnus.Com>
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 10:52 PM
Subject: Something weird with security context on Win2k


> I'm running Win2k Professional with 128bit and IE5.01SP1. It is part of
NT4
> domain with DC being NT4SP6a. Cygwin was downloaded two days ago. Most of
the
> time I am logged in as domain user.
>
> I have local user with the same name as domain user. Because of known
problems
> with gdb in this case, I tried to use runas.exe to start a program under
this
> user account (runas is much like sudo on Unix):
>
> runas /user:localuser c:\cygwin\cygwin.bat
>
> For whatever reson bash is almost always started in security context of
DOMAIN
> user with this name and not LOCAL user. This happens after lomg delay. It
is
> easily seen - all my mounts (local to my domain account) are there, and id
> reports domain user. Just once it was correctly started under local user -
> that was why I noted it at all.
>
> I add, that I have admin privileges - so, if Cygwin incorrectly determines
> personality, it probably can assume any user's identity (I am not so deep
in
> Win32 to express it in correct terms).
>
> Anybody has seen it?
>
> -andrej
>
> Have a nice DOS!
> B >>
>
>
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