From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Microsoft Accounts (was Re: Problem with "None" Group on Non-Domain Members)
Date: Wed, 07 May 2014 14:43:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140507144350.GL30918@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140507142012.GJ30918@calimero.vinschen.de>
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On May 7 16:20, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On May 7 17:53, Andrey Repin wrote:
> > Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!
> >
> > > I toyed around with the Microsoft Account a bit more. And here's why
> > > the primary group SID being identical to the user SID is not a good
> > > idea:
> >
> > > Security checks.
> >
> > > For instance:
> >
> > > $ echo $USER
> > > VMBERT8164+local_000
> > > $ screen
> > > Directory /tmp/uscreens/S-VMBERT8164+local_000 must have mode 700.
> >
> > > Huh?
> >
> > > $ ls -l /tmp/uscreens/
> > > total 0
> > > drwxrwx---+ 1 VMBERT8164+local_000 VMBERT8164+local_000 0 May 7 12:44 S-VMBERT8164+local_000
> >
> > > Uh Oh.
> >
> > I concur.
> > But mostly because of blind check "if it's not 700, it's wrong".
> > No, it's not wrong, you dumb piece of code, it's your check isn't right.
>
> No, the check is right from a POSIX POV. How is a POSIX application
> supposed to know that the group with gid 12345 is in fact the user
> with the uid 12345? That's not possible in a POSIX environment.
>
> > > This will be a problem with other security sensitive applications, too.
> > > Sshd comes to mind.
> >
> > > So I guess we really should make sure the primary group SID is some
> > > valid group, not the user's SID.
> >
> > > "None" is not an option since it's not in the user token group list.
> >
> > > "Users" seems to be the best choice at first sight.
> >
> > For local SAM account.
>
> ...or "Domain Users" for AD accounts, probably.
AFAICS, domain accounts don't matter. You can connect your domain
account to a Microsoft Account, but its token will reflect the
domain settings exactly. So, AFAICS, only local accounts are affected
at all.
Corinna
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Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-05 13:49 Problem with "None" Group on Non-Domain Members Chris J. Breisch
2014-05-05 13:59 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-05-05 14:17 ` Chris J. Breisch
2014-05-05 14:47 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-05-05 15:23 ` Chris J. Breisch
2014-05-05 15:42 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-05-05 16:17 ` Chris J. Breisch
2014-05-05 16:57 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-05-05 18:52 ` Robert Pendell
2014-05-06 13:02 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-05-05 18:56 ` Chris J. Breisch
2014-05-05 19:44 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2014-05-05 21:57 ` Chris J. Breisch
2014-05-05 22:07 ` Chris J. Breisch
2014-05-05 22:29 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2014-05-05 22:39 ` Chris J. Breisch
2014-05-06 0:43 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2014-05-06 12:23 ` Chris J. Breisch
2014-05-05 22:09 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2014-05-06 12:52 ` Microsoft Accounts (was Re: Problem with "None" Group on Non-Domain Members) Corinna Vinschen
2014-05-06 12:55 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-05-06 13:01 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-05-07 12:26 ` vlado99
2014-05-07 12:43 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-05-06 17:01 ` Chris J. Breisch
2014-05-06 17:16 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-05-06 18:22 ` Chris J. Breisch
2014-05-07 11:57 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-05-07 12:40 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-05-07 14:09 ` Chris J. Breisch
2014-05-07 14:46 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-05-08 20:09 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-05-08 23:18 ` Robert Pendell
2014-05-09 0:12 ` Ken Brown
2014-05-09 1:34 ` Robert Pendell
2014-05-09 6:11 ` Achim Gratz
2014-05-09 7:42 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-05-07 14:05 ` Andrey Repin
2014-05-07 14:20 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-05-07 14:43 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2014-05-07 14:05 ` Chris J. Breisch
2014-05-07 14:35 ` Corinna Vinschen
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