On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 09:11:34PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 08:46:06PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> >This is the first in a series of patches fixing security holes
> >associated with the file mappings in the core of Cygwin.
> >I hope the explanations below are
Christopher Faylor wrote:
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> On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 12:12:11AM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> >At 09:11 PM 9/8/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> >>On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 08:46:06PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> >>>This is the first in a series of patches fixing security holes
> >>>associated with
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
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> On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 09:11:34PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 08:46:06PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> > >This is the first in a series of patches fixing security holes
> > >associated with the file mappings in the core of Cygwin.
>
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> > I wonder if it is time to bite the bullet and get rid of user-mode
> > mounts entirely. Or maybe disallow them in suid'ed sessions? They
> > are always going to be a security hole AFAICT.
>
> I think that would be a bad idea. What if I want to install
> a pri
This is the follow up on yesterday's patch.
There is no change in external behavior, just cleaning up.
The main innovation is the new function cygheap_user::init
that initializes the user name and sid just after the cygheap is
initialized.
The information can then be used in user_shared_initiali
