I installed the LSA authentication package; but no difference in behavior was found.
--Sam On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 9:20 AM, Sam Habiel <sam.hab...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am continuing to port GT.M to Cygwin > (https://www.fisglobal.com/solutions/banking-and-wealth/services/database-engine). > > The database has a suid program that is marked u+s (root suid) on the > file permissions so that it can run as root whenever invoked. One of > the first things it does is cd to another directory that is owned by > root and is not accessible by anybody else. > > Cygwin doesn't have the concept of root; so I am trying to implement > this by sgid into the Adminstrators group (544) from a limited user > account (i.e., set-up that way on Windows). The executable, instead of > being suid root, is sgid Adminstrators. The sgid C call apparently > succeeds when I run it from gdb, but the C chdir instruction fails. > > I read https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html; but haven't done > anything it says. After all, the sgid call apparently succeeded. > > My question is: am I on the right path; or is Windows and Cygwin being > reasonable in denying my request to chdir when the user is not a > member of the Administrators group, in spite of the executable being > sgid Administrators? > > --Sam -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
