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Re: Windows 2003


On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 09:16:20PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> At 05:05 PM 7/10/2003 -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> >Have a look at http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-06/msg00500.html
> >ssh with password authentication worked (top of message).
> >Strangely (middle of the message) he was unable to do a passwordless
> >"telnet system", although no token creation takes place there.
> 
> Just an idea about that second problem. Is SYSTEM in the Admins group
> on 2003?

Yes.  The token looks unsuspiciouos.  Owner and User SYSTEM, primary
group Admins, group list contains Admins, Everyone and Authenticated Users,
default DACL as usual.

> Also a piece of good news:
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-04/msg00460.html
> 
> Giving the Create Token privilege seems to work, at least on some 
> 2003 systems.

I still don't trust that statement.  It's in pure contrast to the
given proof that SeCreateTokenPrivilege isn't in the token.  I'm
not convinced.  *If* he's right though, we would have to carefully
examine the differences in token creation since 1.3.1...

Corinna

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