From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: LRN <lrn1986@gmail.com>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: How to become root/root (0/0)
Date: Fri, 10 May 2019 14:05:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1146833447.20190510165442@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3e9407d5-9a47-c863-64a4-445b2fc04050@gmail.com>
Greetings, LRN!
>>> Again, there's simply no equivalent of "god user" from *NIX in Windows
>>> permissions system.
>>
>> That's not really correct. An account that is a member of the
>> Administrators local group (localized name can be different, SID is
>> S-1-5-32-544) is a root/superuser equivalent.
>>
>> It is true that some objects have permissions that prevent Administrators
>> from accessing them, but any member of Administrators can take
>> ownership/change permissions/run as SYSTEM and access those objects.
> IIRC, even Administrators can't run as SYSTEM. To run as SYSTEM, you need to
> somehow coerce a process that runs as SYSTEM to do something for you. Usually
> achieved by running a [temporary] service and having it do what you want to be
> done.
> Notably, SYSTEM (but not Administrator) can impersonate any other user without
> needing a password
Only locally.
But then again, impersonation versus having an inherent god power.
> (other users can only impersonate with a password - i.e.
> they need to authenticate themselves). In that sense SYSTEM is the true root
> (though there are other high-privilege accounts, such as Trusted Installer and
> Local Service that might be able to do the same things).
--
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Friday, May 10, 2019 16:53:51
Sorry for my terrible english...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-10 14:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-09 9:01 Henning
2019-05-09 12:20 ` Andrey Repin
2019-05-09 12:31 ` LRN
2019-05-09 12:50 ` Andrey Repin
2019-05-09 14:45 ` Bill Stewart
2019-05-09 14:53 ` LRN
2019-05-10 14:05 ` Andrey Repin [this message]
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2019-05-08 13:50 Henning
2019-05-08 14:33 ` Erik Soderquist
2019-05-08 14:45 ` Chris Johmson
2019-05-09 8:35 ` Andrey Repin
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