Re: [ros-dev] Google Summer of Code 2013

[Zachary Gorden]

That list isn't "mine", it's a collection of proposals from several
people. The only two entries that I can claim any familiarity with are
the performance data registry and UEFI booting.

On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 12:22 AM, J. C. Jones <jaibuduvin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>   Hi Zachary,
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>  I noticed one item on your list that might be relevant to a problem that I
>  am having with setting up remote-debugging between a host machine running
>  Windows 7 and a guest machine running ReactOS:
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>  Security Controls
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>  Implement support for user permissions based on Access Control Lists.
>
>  Benefits
>
>  This will allow separation of users into groups and better control over user
>  privileges in ReactOS. Security controls will then allow supporting multiple
>  users on the same system.
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>  Skills Needed
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>  Familiarity with Windows security and permissions models
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>
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>  See my post:
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>  http://www.reactos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=99347#p99347
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>  While trying to induce Visual Studio, running on a Windows 7 host, to show a
>  list of all running processes on a ReactOS VM, Visual Studio, is indeed,
>  communicating with MSVSMON.EXE, the server process on the ReactOS VM, and
>  even connecting to it. Then, suddenly, Visual Studio puts up a dialog box
>  that says that the IP address of the ReactOS VM is invalid, which is
>  obviously not true, because, concurrent with this error message, MSVSMON.EXE
>  shows in its log window that it just connected to the Visual Studio running
>  on the host.
>
>
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>  I suspect that MSVSMON.EXE is trying to gain SeDebugPrivilege to one or more
>  processes running in ReactOS to which it is not entitled. When MSVSMON.EXE
>  receives an error code from one of the access control functions, it sends
>  error message back to Visual Studio. Visual Studio is caught off-guard by
>  this error message and gives a bogus explanation for failure.
>
>
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>  Does ReactOS support the Authorization Functions, and AdjustTokenPrivileges
>  in particular? Does this explanation for the failure make sense?
>
>
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>  Cheers,
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>
>  -John (A.K.A. BlackRabbit)
>
>
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>  From: ros-dev-bounces(a)reactos.org [mailto:[e-mail]] On
>  Behalf Of Zachary Gorden
>  Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2013 4:01 PM
>  To: ReactOS Development List
>  Subject: Re: [ros-dev] Google Summer of Code 2013
>
>
>
>  Note that I've already created an ideas page for 2013 here:
>  http://reactos.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2013_Ideas
>
>  On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Colin Finck <colin(a)reactos.org> wrote:
>
>  Hi all,
>
>  Google will host its Summer of Code again this year. Let's try to get in
>  again after our successful participation in 2011!
>
>  Who's available to write up a new idea page along with the student guide?
>  Let's draft it in a Google doc again.
>  I believe that some more ideas can be added, i.e. tasks on Explorer-New now
>  that work has progressed on it. Others need to be removed, such as the
>  finished AHCI support for UniATA or my KD USB-to-Serial driver, which nobody
>  really understood ;)
>
>  Deadline is 18th March, so about 2 weeks to go.
>
>  References:
>  * http://reactos.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2012
>  * http://reactos.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2012_Ideas
>
>
>  - Colin
>
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