On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:12:11AM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > You imply that somebody has the ability to change user context! If so > then who is that somebody (USER)?
I have to tell that each week (day?) again, apparently. It's SYSTEM. > It's my understanding that the only thing(s) that use login are things > like telnet/rlogin/rsh. > > Frustrated by the lack of su(1M)! Did you ever try to understand NT security? Otherwise you would know know the cause for this restriction. It's exceptionally not because we're mean! > Oh, BTW, here's a potential security problem: > > $ rsh hosta id > uid=1370(adefaria) gid=513(Domain Users) groups=0(Everyone),512(Domain > Admins),513(Domain > Users),1170(Everybody),1382(ITSupport),1354(Operations),1331(Software) > $ rsh hosta -l otheruser id > uid=1269(otheruser) gid=513(Domain Users) groups=0(Everyone),513(Domain > Users),1203(Engineering),1170(Everybody),2171(Product Team),1215(Service > Group),1331(Software),1298(TDM Group) > > How did I rsh as another user and not be prompted for a password? Because you have an .rhosts file? I assume you know how rsh works on U*X systems, don't you? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/
