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Re: Request for help debugging screen problem


On Feb  6 15:29, Shaddy Baddah wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 6/02/2010 1:14 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Feb  5 17:31, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >>On Feb  5 15:58, Shaddy Baddah wrote:
> >>>I thought it was common knowledge that logging in to an
> >>>Administrtors grouped user in Vista or Windows 7 is not enough to
> >>>defeat the (default) UAC, and you remain unelevated from a privilege
> >>>standpoint. That is why I have no choice but to unlock the genuine
> >>>Administrator (and rename it just in case).
> >>
> >>No, that's not quite correct.  If you call LogonUser (or the cyglsa sort
> >>of password-less authentication) successfully, the system returns the
> >>non-elevated token as well as the elevated token as a so-called linked
> >>token.  In case of pubkey authentication, Cygwin refers to the elevated
> >>token and uses that to switch the user context.  In case of password
> >>authentication it does not do that so far.
> >
> >In CVS it does now.
> 
> Can't build due to what look like very recent changes:
> 
> make[3]: *** No rule to make target `/cygdrive/z/shaddybaddah.name-projects/cygwin-master.git/winsup/cygwin/regex/regex.h',
> needed by `regcomp.o'.  Stop.
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/Users/shaddy/cygwin-home/workarea/cygwin-build/i686-pc-cygwin/winsup/cygwin'

Try `make clean && make'


Corinna

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