login: no shell: /bin/bash: Permission denied

Corinna Vinschen cygwin@cygwin.com
Thu Mar 7 05:04:00 GMT 2002


On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 10:43:02AM +0100, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> > Yes and no.  Fact is, the kernel and the libraries are a real
> > NT system.  But the system tools don't allow you to do all that
> > stuff.
> 
> Ok.  So maybe with the right tools (or /proc/registry tweaking), "Home
> Edition" could be taught to administer nt rights for users/groups.

I have XP HE and XP Prof versions for testing purposes.  The restrictions
in HE are really tricky.  I tried even stuff as moving DLLs and MMC
snapins from Prof to HE but to no avail.

Registry tweaking is useless, too.  The user rights are in the SAM.

What I didn't try but what should work is writing your own
application using LSA Policy functions.  Which means, writing
your own "Local Security Policy" application.

> > But that isn't what you do anyway.
> 
> I don't understand?  [This machine isn't mine, of course, but I've now
> got the choice of using this iso an old Windows 98 box to test cygwin
> stuff]

Sorry, that should read "But that isn't what you *should* do anyway."

> Sure.  Amazingly, the default setup from Miscrosoft is with Outlook
> and one user without passwd, who has administrator (and whatnot)
> rights.  So for enhanced vulnerability, a default IIS install should
> suffice, I guess.

Yeah, HE is an NT system which has been downgraded nearly to the
usual 98 insecurity.  It's annoying.  However, it was funny to
see, that `ntsec' works fine.  Unfortunately you can neither set
nor see the permissions in the GUI.  But you can, using Cygwin.
So with Cygwin you can upgrade HE ;-)

Corinna

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