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privilege problem with permanent virtual drives defined as DOS devices
- From: "Kurt Franke" <Kurt-Franke at web dot de>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 04:10:51 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: privilege problem with permanent virtual drives defined as DOS devices
- Sensitivity: Normal
Hello,
a privilege problem occures with permanent virtual drives defined
as DOS devices.
$> uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-6.0 meow2 1.7.7(0.230/5/3) 2010-08-31 09:58 i686 Cygwin
when have defined dos devices to access a particular path as a
permanent virtual drive in each session like the following example:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\DOS Devices]
"K:"="\\??\\C:\\\\oracle\\doc\\10.2\\doc"
no access is possible with a normal user or an admin user with a
restricted token - only users with an elevated admin token can
access it
if explicitly mounted a "No such file or directory" is issued when
trying to access the mount point via ls or df while not using an
elevated admin token
as normal user
$_%> df /k
df: `/k': No such file or directory
df: no file systems processed
as elevated admin
$_#> df /k
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
K: 110687816 81352392 29335424 74% /k
if not explicitly mounted no cygdrive entry occures for such users
this privilege problem didn't occure with version before 1.7
$> uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-6.0 meow2 1.5.24(0.156/4/2) 2007-01-31 10:57 i686 Cygwin
regards
kf
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