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Re: Vista + cygwin basics
On Apr 21 23:36, Charles Wilson wrote:
> However, the bash shell for the remote login is running at the Untrusted IL
> in session 0, unlike the bash shell for the current at-the-keyboard login,
> which is running at the Medium IL in session 1.
>
> I'm not sure that's what I'd want...I think I'd want my remote user to be
> Medium, to, otherwise all kinds of odd sandboxing/virtualization things
> happen, right?
The solution for the future is "cyglsa", the special DLL which will be
part of the 1.7 release. A script /bin/cyglsa-config plus a reboot will
install it. After that, your IL will be Medium for a normal user and
High for an admin user when logging in through ssh/telnet/etc.
Other than that, I also added code to the create_token function which is
used for passwordless login, if the cyglsa DLL hasn't been installed.
It adds a IL SID to the create token, matching the user: Medium level
for normal users, High level for admins, System level for SYSTEM.
However, that will also only work starting with 1.7.
> Right. That's what I see -- except for the remote users authenticated by
> those services in session 0. They don't get a session of their own, but
> remain in session 0.
>
> Hmmm. I wonder if they SHOULD get a session of their own (which might
> alleviate any concerns with IL medium processes controlled by a remote user
> running in session 0 with the services). How would sshd/rlogind/telnetd do
> that?
How should that work? We're talking about terminal server sessions.
The most important fact is that a ssh/telnet/whatever login is NOT a TS
session. Also, workstation systems (XP, Vista) don't support more than
one TS session at a time. Creating a TS session for the
ssh/telnet/whatever login would result in logging out the locally logged
on user... *iff* the local user agrees to be logged out.
> [...]
> And now I have three different ssh-agents: one for the remote user, and two
> for the various shells used by the at-the-keyboard user.
That should work as expected with 1.7 as well.
>> However, that problem will be fixed in 1.7.0 by using something along
>> the lines of the Vista/Longhorn "Private Namespaces". So, with 1.7.0
>> you will see all Cygwin processes again. Unless, of course, Microsoft
>> decides to break my new solution with the next Windows version...
>
> You naughty malware author...
I'm using whatever is allowed from user space...
Corinna
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