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Re: POSIX permission mapping and NULL SIDs
- From: Bill Zissimopoulos <billziss at navimatics dot com>
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- Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 22:53:00 +0000
- Subject: Re: POSIX permission mapping and NULL SIDs
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On 6/24/16, 3:06 PM, "cygwin-owner@cygwin.com on behalf of Erik
Soderquist" <cygwin-owner@cygwin.com on behalf of
ErikSoderquist@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 5:59 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> I am inclined to try S-1-5-7 (Anonymous). But I do not know if that is
>>>a
>>> bad choice for some reason or other.
>>
>> I thought about Anonymous myself when I wrote my reply to your OP. I
>> refrained from mentioning it because it might have some unexpected side
>> effect we're not aware about.
>
>I know in at least some versions of IIS, the Anonymous SID is the one
>explicitly used for all not logged in www/ftp/etc clients connecting
>to IIS -- not sure if that would affect this discussion.
It is my understanding that this is the intended use of the Anonymous SID.
I have not thought enough to know whether it would fit properly in this
use case.
One caveat is that Cygwin already maps S-1-5-7 to uid 7. So does that mean
that 7==nobody in Cygwinâs case?
Bill