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77845d20
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77845d20
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Nov 17, 2005
by
Russ Fish
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Update uid/gid text. Non-root privileges do work after all.
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@@ -731,26 +731,50 @@ good across SMB.
<code>
chown/chgrp
</code>
, use the numeric suffix as the uid,
e.g.
<code>
1334
</code>
. This is different from your normal Emulab Unix
user ID number, and the Samba server takes care of the
difference.
</li>
difference.
<p>
The
<b><code>
id
</code></b>
command reports your user id and group
memberships.
<p>
Note that all users are in group
<b><code>
None
</code></b>
on XP.
Contrary to the name, this is a group that contains
<b>
all users
</b>
.
It was named
<code>
Everybody
</code>
on Windows 2000, which was a better
name.
</li>
<li>
There is no direct equivalent of the Unix
<b>
setuid
</b>
programs under
Windows, and hence no
<code>
su
</code>
or
<code>
sudo
</code>
commands.
<p>
Everybody is in group
<b><code>
wheel
</code></b>
, an alias for the
Windows
<code>
Administrators
</code>
group. The Emulab notion of
non-local-root members of a project is not implemented.
</li>
The Windows equivalent to running a Unix command as
<code>
root
</code>
is membership in the Windows
<b><code>
Administrators
</code></b>
group.
Emulab project members who have either
<code>
local_root
</code>
or
<code>
group_root
</code>
privileges are put in group
<b><code>
wheel
</code></b>
, another alias for
<code>
Administrators
</code>
. Project members with
<code>
user
</code>
privileges are not members of the wheel group.
<p>
You can
<code>
ssh
</code>
a command to the node as the target user, as
long as you arrange for the proper authentication.
<p>
There is not usually a Windows account named
<b><code>
root
</code></b>
.
We create one as part of the Emulab setup to own installed software,
and to run services and Unix scripts that check that they're running
with root privileges. The
<code>
root
</code>
user does not have Samba
privileges to access Samba shared mounts, including
<code>
/proj
</code>
,
<code>
/groups
</code>
, and
<code>
/users
</code>
.
<p>
For C/C++ code, there is a
<code>
setuid()
</code>
function in the Cygwin
library, which "impersonates" the user if proper setup is done first.
</li>
<li>
Cygwin does a pretty good job of mapping Unix user-group-other file
permissions to Windows NT security ACLs.
<p>
On
e difference is that on windows
, file p
rotect
ions can lock out root,
On
Windows, unlike Unix
, file p
ermiss
ions can lock out root,
Administrator, or SYSTEM user access. Many Unix scripts don't bother
with permissions if they're running as root.
<p>
There is not usually a Windows account named
<b><code>
root
</code></b>
,
but we create one as part of the Emulab setup.
</li>
with permissions if they're running as root, and hence need
modification to run on Cygwin.
</li>
Cygwin tries to treat
<code>
.exe
</code>
files the same as executable
<li>
Cygwin tries to treat
<code>
.exe
</code>
files the same as executable
files without the
<code>
.exe
</code>
suffix, but with execute
permissions turned on. This breaks down in Makefile actions and
scripts, where
<code>
rm
</code>
,
<code>
ls -l
</code>
, and
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