On 6/24/16, 3:06 PM, "cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com on behalf of Erik Soderquist" <cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com on behalf of eriksoderqu...@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
