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From: Erik Soderquist <ErikSoderquist@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Possible Security Hole in SSHD w/ CYGWIN?
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 17:10:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACoZoo2RCR8Eo6sGdD+5BEErEQ7xg0t9bij1_c9YdegV-GD_pQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160218151257.GA14838@calimero.vinschen.de>

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 10:12 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
<snip>>
> I implemented and tested the idea and it seems to work.  Note that the
> underlying problem that we can't generate our own login session when using
> method 1 persists.  However, the new code should avoid spilling cyg_server
> credentials into the user session.
>
> Please give the new Cygwin test release 2.5.0-0.4
> (https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2016-02/msg00023.html) a try.

I've installed the test release and am no longer able to reproduce the
issue; I get the expected "access denied" on all network shares as I
should on this test account.  (pub key auth, no password stored with
"passwd -R")

:)

-- Erik

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-18 17:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-10  4:39 David Willis
2016-02-10  4:57 ` Stephen John Smoogen
2016-02-10  5:21   ` David Willis
2016-02-12 22:27     ` David Willis
2016-02-13  8:34       ` Achim Gratz
2016-02-13 21:15         ` David Willis
2016-02-14  0:34           ` Erik Soderquist
2016-02-14  1:29             ` David Willis
2016-02-14  1:48               ` Erik Soderquist
2016-02-14 10:49           ` Achim Gratz
2016-02-14  0:14         ` Erik Soderquist
2016-02-14  1:37           ` David Willis
2016-02-14 10:49           ` Achim Gratz
2016-02-14 18:36             ` Erik Soderquist
2016-02-15 12:11               ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-02-17  4:55                 ` David Willis
2016-02-17  9:43                   ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-02-18 15:13                     ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-02-18 17:10                       ` Erik Soderquist [this message]
2016-02-19 11:10                         ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-02-19 16:38                           ` Erik Soderquist
2016-02-20 19:53                       ` David Willis
2016-02-13  1:04     ` Erik Soderquist
2016-02-13 20:04       ` David Willis
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-02-09 15:56 David Willis
2016-02-09  6:43 David Willis
2016-02-09  7:53 ` Achim Gratz

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