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Re: How do I figure out why LogonUserA is failing?
On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 04:44:33PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 10:06:25AM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
> > At 09:59 AM 11/13/2001, Mark Paulus wrote:
> > >So,
> > >
> > >If I understand this little diddy, one shouldn't just up and do a
> > >"login root"? If that is the case, then what does one do to "become"
> > >another user? I have gotten it to work by telnetting back to my machine
> > >and logging in as root that way, but that is rather "klunky", in my opinion.
>
> You're right... from a POSIX system point of view. However, we're
> on a Windows system. NT has a completely different way of handling
> security issues. Cygwin is just a user space DLL on top of Win32
> and (sometimes) native NT API.
... which means, we can't just speak
a spell and get rid of NT security issues.
Corinna
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