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- From: TrevorL@ise.canberra.edu.au (Trevor Lawrence)
- Subject: Re: NT not multiuser, then Unix is not a competing OS
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.022358.3448@csc.canberra.edu.au>
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 02:23:58 GMT
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- In article <C0p95w.7M5@news.iastate.edu>, martin@iastate.edu (Martin R Calsyn) says:
- >
- >.....
- >
- >I wouldn't be too sure about those telnet servers (telnetd) for NT. I
- >embarked on such a project, only to be thwarted. If there's interest,
- >I'll post the official reply from MicroSoft, but essentially, a crucial
- >API call set is not available.
- >
- >When you log on through WINLOGON, you get an access token which is the
- >basis for all further security interactions with NT. That is, WINLOGON
- >takes your cleartext username and password and produces an access token.
- >
- >In order to produce a true telnetd application giving you all of the
- >same system, file, and network access rights, your telnetd must be able
- >to accept a cleartext username and password and use them to obtain an
- >access token. WNetAddConnection2() accepts a name & password, but only
- >gives you access to NT file shares -- it does not give you all of the
- >security components necessary for generalized interactive computing.
- >
- >..... etc
-
- This comment seems too important to let slip by. Its hard to believe!
- I haven't tried to work in this area but I had assumed that the APIs that
- work on SIDs were the appropriate ones. How does WinLogon create
- the access token?
-
- Anyone have any comments or info?
-
-
-
- Trevor Lawrence
-
- Faculty of Information Sciences and Engineering
- University of Canberra, AUSTRALIA
-