rsh: "Permission denied" on file creation. Cygwin 1.3.3 on W2 K Adv Srv SP2.

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 06:40:11PM +0200, JHJE (Jan Holst Jensen) wrote:
> OK. Now, from what I've gathered, there seems to be some dispute as to what
> SYSTEM can do. But, since I can write to an existing file with an rsh
> invocation, it would seem that enough privileges are set in this case.
>  
> >Or, much easier, the process running under System account activates 
> >its SeRestorePrivilege and reads the file or activates its 
> >SeBackupPrivilege and writes the file using FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS. 
> >System has both rights set by default.  They are just not activated 
> >by default as it's given for most dangerous privileges in NT. 
> 
> Is it then a bug/oversight that rsh cannot create a file, or is it intended
> (cryptic) behavior ?

It's intended NT behaviour.  No password on logon <-> no authentication
on network shares.

Corinna

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