From: Bill Zissimopoulos <billziss@navimatics.com>
To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: POSIX permission mapping and NULL SIDs
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 23:03:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D39302CC.9684%billziss@navimatics.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACoZoo3xsGPqiEXzAXHVjsG_hrO6Sd-thTPh3RC_0i==rPgCKw@mail.gmail.com>
On 6/24/16, 3:06 PM, "cygwin-owner@cygwin.com on behalf of Erik
Soderquist" <cygwin-owner@cygwin.com on behalf of
ErikSoderquist@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 5:59 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> I am inclined to try S-1-5-7 (Anonymous). But I do not know if that is
>>>a
>>> bad choice for some reason or other.
>>
>> I thought about Anonymous myself when I wrote my reply to your OP. I
>> refrained from mentioning it because it might have some unexpected side
>> effect we're not aware about.
>
>I know in at least some versions of IIS, the Anonymous SID is the one
>explicitly used for all not logged in www/ftp/etc clients connecting
>to IIS -- not sure if that would affect this discussion.
It is my understanding that this is the intended use of the Anonymous SID.
I have not thought enough to know whether it would fit properly in this
use case.
One caveat is that Cygwin already maps S-1-5-7 to uid 7. So does that mean
that 7==nobody in Cygwin’s case?
Bill
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-24 22:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-24 19:02 Bill Zissimopoulos
2016-06-24 21:37 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-06-24 22:00 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-06-24 22:06 ` Bill Zissimopoulos
2016-06-24 22:31 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-06-24 22:36 ` Erik Soderquist
2016-06-24 23:03 ` Bill Zissimopoulos [this message]
2016-06-24 23:51 ` Bill Zissimopoulos
2016-06-27 13:20 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-06-24 22:53 ` Bill Zissimopoulos
2016-06-25 17:10 ` Brian Inglis
2016-06-27 10:26 ` Bill Zissimopoulos
2016-06-27 10:29 ` Andrey Repin
2016-06-27 12:06 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-06-27 20:31 ` Bill Zissimopoulos
2016-06-28 11:08 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-06-28 19:17 ` Bill Zissimopoulos
2016-06-28 19:17 ` John Ruckstuhl
2016-06-29 8:43 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-06-29 15:14 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-06-29 16:06 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-06-30 9:26 ` Bill Zissimopoulos
2016-06-30 14:15 ` Corinna Vinschen
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