Re: messed up user permissions from w2k terminal session

[James D Below <James dot Below at grc dot nasa dot gov>]

Hi Pierre,

I forgot to clarify the user account differences.

Ignore my first post regarding the Administrators group. I thought I had 
put my id in the admin group but I must have hit cancel because when I 
checked today it wasn't there.

If the user account is in an admin group (Domain admins or Administrators ) 
then everything is fine.


> In your initial post you wrote "The administrator account doesn't experience
> problem. A user account belonging in the Administrators group does."
> Is the most recent experiment, is the user in question in the Administrators
> group?
> Also, prior to launching H:\cygwin\cywin.bat, is there any other Cygwin
> process running under that user name on the machine?

nope, no other processes.

> Could you try again when there is absolutely no Cygwin process running?
>
> > When I walk up to the console and login, cywin 1.5.5.1 runs just fine.
> >
> > The problem does *not* occur in version cygwin version 1.3.22-1
>
> Yep, a security hole was fixed in recent versions, but somehow now there
> is "too much" security. I have a theory but I don't have easy access to a
> terminal server to experiment.
>
> So here are two more questions;
> 1) When you run 1.3.22 and you do ps -a from a Terminal Server session, do you
> see all Cygwin processes on the machine or only yours?

Only mine, only the ones that I have launched from my window/login session. 
I don't see my process in my other terminal windows.

> 2) With 1.5.5, can you run simple Cygwin processes, such as ps or cat,
> from the cmd prompt window?

nope, only from an account with admin privileges

It appears the privilege that is assigned to a user from a "terminal 
session" is different than that of the same user logging in directly at the 
console.

I hope this helps.

thanks.
james


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