About "messed up user permissions from w2k terminal session"

Pierre A. Humblet Pierre.Humblet@ieee.org
Wed Oct 8 13:20:00 GMT 2003


Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> How do we implement 3?  A function for checking and setting privileges
> exists.  We would have to tweak it slightly to allow to recognize the
> case that a user right just doesn't exist on the system.
> 
> How do we test if the session is a TS session?  Does NT provide this
> information somewhere? *dig, dig, dig*  Cool, yes, the function
> GetSystemMetrics(SM_REMOTESESSION) returns TRUE if running in a remote
> session.  It does not return TRUE if running under a service, I just
> tested it.  So 3 should be doable.

Great. FWIW there is also another way. Users running under TS are in a
special group, at least with Windows 2000 sp4
4 [TERMINAL SERVER USER] [NT AUTHORITY] SidTypeWellKnownGroup
11 S-1-5-13
SE_GROUP_ENABLED, SE_GROUP_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT, SE_GROUP_MANDATORY, 

Pierre

P.S.: Ash looks good. Thanks.



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