((AllowUsers || AllowGroups) && !(AllowUsers && AllowGroups))
James Dennis
jdennis at law.harvard.edu
Thu Feb 20 02:22:37 EST 2003
Hmm...
I could've sworn OpenSSH was for Unix and ran under NT only in cygwin.
Does it matter what NT is setup to do then? I suppose superuser could be
system-dependent, but I think Ben is right. If you have multiple
accounts with uid 0, you haven't set your system up correctly.
> Ben, you *know* that's not exactly true. On NT there's a superuser
> group ("Administrators" on english versions) and there's an arbitrary
> number of accounts which could be members of that group. Even this
> description doesn't completely cover the complexity of possible rules
> used in NT systems and regardless of my own opinion, this is *fact*.
> I don't think it's the correct way to deal with this by ignoring it.
>
> That's the reason I already asked at least twice for changing all
>
> if uid == 0
>
> or similar to
>
> if is_root(uid)
>
> with is_superuser being system-dependent.
>
> Corinna
>
-James
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