patch 3: sshd
Corinna Vinschen
cygwin-patches@cygwin.com
Tue Nov 12 08:32:00 GMT 2002
On Wed, 06 Nov 2002 11:36:31 -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> Currently setuid on Win95/98/ME always returns success
> but does not change the uid. That confuses some programs
> that verify if the setuid has really succeeded.
>
> It is literally a two line change in Cygwin to fix
> that, but unfortunately changing uids breaks sshd
> on Win95/98/ME.
Can we really do this? Doesn't that potentially break something?
> P.S.: There is an opposite problem in login. It doesn't
> check if the setuid succeeds. If it fails (e.g. because
> the sid is missing in /etc/passwd), login goes ahead
> and starts the shell anyway. The user then finds herself
> running as SYSTEM.
Thanks, I'm going to apply a patch.
Corinna
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