Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Draft-From: ("nnmh:indoos.cygwin" 2045) To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: login: no shell: /bin/bash: Permission denied References: <20020306101433.P13590@cygbert.vinschen.de> <20020306114133.V13590@cygbert.vinschen.de> <20020306174336.A13590@cygbert.vinschen.de> <20020307101441.M13590@cygbert.vinschen.de> Organization: Jan at Appel Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 10:43:02 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20020307101441.M13590@cygbert.vinschen.de> (Corinna Vinschen's message of "Thu, 7 Mar 2002 10:14:41 +0100") Message-ID: Lines: 37 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Corinna Vinschen writes: >> rights (whatever set of rights that is), or not. Is this another toy >> operating system after all? > > Yes and no. Fact is, the kernel and the libraries are a real > NT system. But the system tools don't allow you to do all that > stuff. Ok. So maybe with the right tools (or /proc/registry tweaking), "Home Edition" could be taught to administer nt rights for users/groups. > You should have taken "Home Edition" really serious. > > But that isn't what you do anyway. I don't understand? [This machine isn't mine, of course, but I've now got the choice of using this iso an old Windows 98 box to test cygwin stuff] > Use sshd or inetd/telnet to switch user context as you already do. > That's more secure. > Imagine your account has the user right "act as part of the > operating system" and you install a virulent application > accidentally... Sure. Amazingly, the default setup from Miscrosoft is with Outlook and one user without passwd, who has administrator (and whatnot) rights. So for enhanced vulnerability, a default IIS install should suffice, I guess. Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/