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From: Christian Franke <Christian.Franke@t-online.de>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: how to drop administrator privileges?
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:40:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F9EC085.8070602@t-online.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120427082014.GL25385@calimero.vinschen.de>

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Fixing cygdrop.
>
>    $ net helpmsg 122
>    The data area passed to a system call is too small.
>
> A quick look into the sources shows that the maximum buffer size for
> the group list returned by GetTokenInformation is wrongly computed:
>
>    max_groups = 100;
>    char groups_buf[sizeof(DWORD) + max_groups * sizeof(SID_AND_ATTRIBUTES)];
>
> The SID_AND_ATTRIBUTES structure only contains a pointer to the SID, so
> what's missing is actual space for the SIDs.

Oops.

> But it would be better to leave that to the OS anyway:

Thanks for the patch. Works as expected.

Christian


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      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-04-30 16:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-26 20:34 Achim Gratz
2012-04-26 21:33 ` Charles Wilson
2012-04-27  5:50   ` Achim Gratz
2012-04-27  7:35     ` Achim Gratz
2012-04-27  8:20       ` Corinna Vinschen
2012-04-27 14:43         ` Charles Wilson
2013-05-29 12:35           ` Achim Gratz
2013-05-31  2:51             ` Charles Wilson
2012-04-30 16:40         ` Christian Franke [this message]

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