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Re: POSIX permission mapping and NULL SIDs


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.

-- Erik

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