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Re: Request for help debugging screen problem


Hi,

On 6/02/2010 1:14 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Feb 5 17:31, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Feb 5 15:58, Shaddy Baddah wrote:
I thought it was common knowledge that logging in to an
Administrtors grouped user in Vista or Windows 7 is not enough to
defeat the (default) UAC, and you remain unelevated from a privilege
standpoint. That is why I have no choice but to unlock the genuine
Administrator (and rename it just in case).

No, that's not quite correct. If you call LogonUser (or the cyglsa sort of password-less authentication) successfully, the system returns the non-elevated token as well as the elevated token as a so-called linked token. In case of pubkey authentication, Cygwin refers to the elevated token and uses that to switch the user context. In case of password authentication it does not do that so far.

In CVS it does now.

Can't build due to what look like very recent changes:


make[3]: *** No rule to make target `/cygdrive/z/shaddybaddah.name-projects/cygwin-master.git/winsup/cygwin/regex/regex.h', needed by `regcomp.o'. Stop.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/Users/shaddy/cygwin-home/workarea/cygwin-build/i686-pc-cygwin/winsup/cygwin'


Regards,
Shaddy


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