[cvsnt] Re: cygwin ssh server and author being set to SYSTEM

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Wed Jan 7 17:26:31 GMT 2004


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On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 23:22:28 +0600, Pavel Goran <pvgoran.ml at macondo.ru>
wrote:

>The  authentication module could just check if the calling process has
>enough  priveleges  to use NtCreateToken() and impersonate an user via
>the  obtained  access  token - that is, if the process can make use of
>the  currently used (in CygWin) "broken" impersonation. If this is the
>case,  the  authentication  module  could  safely  proceed  with doing
>whatever is needed for "normal", non-broken impersonation.
>
You can't do that with a subauth module - you get no information about
the calling process or privileges of said process.

Tony




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