PATCH: login under privileged user != SYSTEM
Charles Wilson
cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm
Sat Apr 19 14:54:00 GMT 2008
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr 18 04:32, Charles Wilson wrote:
>> So, I'm still not checking that the uid specified is a member of the local
>> Administrators group.
Now I am. See below.
> As for an account being Administrator, and apart from special accounts
> like SYSTEM or LOCAL_SERVICE...
>
> What about just checking the value of PUSER_INFO_3->usri3_priv? It may
> contain the value USER_PRIV_ADMIN. That should be sufficient, afaics.
That works, even on Vista. I've uploaded a new login-1.9-8 as a test
release. Please take a look (I'll make a more formal 'avail for test'
announcement later).
--
Chuck
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