Future ntsec-detection problem in sshd (Re: winsup/cygwin ChangeLog security.cc)
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Fri Jul 26 04:58:00 GMT 2002
On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 09:09:16PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote:
> > CVS Log message:
> > * security.cc (allow_ntsec): Default to on.
>
> A good idea, but I just want to mention a problem that will eventually arise
> with sshd.
>
> It currently checks whether ntsec is enabled by examining the CYGWIN environment
> variable. This means that if ntsec is defaulted to on, without ntsec appearing
> in the CYGWIN env var, that code now requires reworking. The location of this
> now-problematic code in ssh is check_nt_auth in file
> openbsd-compat/bsd-cygwin_util.c.
Thanks for the heads up. I have to add a version check then.
Corinna
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