Google Summer of Code 2013

[Colin Finck]

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

[Zachary Gorden]

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 [e-mail] 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_2012http://reactos.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2012
> http://reactos.org/wiki/**Google_Summer_of_Code_2012_**Ideashttp://reactos.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2012_Ideas
> Colin
>
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[J. C. Jones]

Hi Zachary,

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:

Security Controls

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.

Skills Needed

Familiarity with Windows security and permissions models

See my post:

http://www.reactos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=99347#p99347

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.

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.

Does ReactOS support the Authorization Functions
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa375742(v=vs.85).a
spx , and AdjustTokenPrivileges
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa375202(v=vs.85).a
spx  in particular? Does this explanation for the failure make sense?

Cheers,

-John (A.K.A. BlackRabbit)

From: [e-mail] [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 [e-mail] 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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[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 [e-mail] wrote:
> Hi Zachary,
>
> 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:
>
> Security Controls
>
> 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.
>
> Skills Needed
>
> Familiarity with Windows security and permissions models
>
> See my post:
>
> http://www.reactos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=99347#p99347
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Does ReactOS support the Authorization Functions, and AdjustTokenPrivileges
> in particular? Does this explanation for the failure make sense?
>
> Cheers,
>
> -John (A.K.A. BlackRabbit)
>
> From: [e-mail] [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 [e-mail] 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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[Sven Barth]

Am 02.03.2013 23:01, schrieb Zachary Gorden:
> Note that I've already created an ideas page for 2013 here: 
> http://reactos.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2013_Ideas

That is a nice list. Sadly I'm busy this summer with writing my master 
thesis and after that I'm not a student anymore... Also I'd not be 
experienced enough in C for most of the tasks (except maybe the SSH 
service and the GUI installer...).

Regards,
Sven