Mail Archives: cygwin/2000/11/23/12:25:36
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Hallo !
> > I had one complaint (remember - W95) The user who logs in (with his/her
> > name and password) is ignored and the UID s/he gets is MINE. This may
> > be irrelevant for file ownership but it is very important when this user
> > do an rlogin to another (trusted) machine. There should be a way that
> > Cygwin will has its own UID independent of the Windoz OS.
>
> That's not a point for the Cygwin core developer team. Remember,
> you're on W9x so you don't have real security at all. However,
> if somebody want's to contribute...
I have something like that nearly finished on my harddisk.
(Wrote it for my personal use, based on CVS from 20.Oct.2000)
Of course only for Win95 ( if (os_being_run != winNT) ... )
Unfortunatly, I dont have the time to finish it. The only
thing still broken is setuid() in exec()-call
(Yes, I also did a quick-and-dirty unix filepermission hack)
An other problem: I still have to carefully evaluate redhats
copyright-assignment. After a first short look, I dont like it.
To me, it looks like the wrong way around, but that is OT here.
Greetings
Bjoern
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