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On Jul 14 07:21, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> I'd argue it's also becoming time for a replacement for the Local System 
> Account for sshd, inetd and crond, perhaps named daemon instead of 
> sshd_server which seems decidedly ssh biased. IOW maybe a little config 
> script to create the daemon user - which the necessarily privileges like 
> sshd_server - which each/any of the above mentioned config script could 
> call in order to set up the service. In fact I think this should be the 
> way to go even on older systems such as 2000 and XP instead of relying 
> on Local System Account. Then it's a little cleaner that all Cygwin 
> services requiring any specific permissions runs under the daemon local 
> user...

Sure, I like the idea.  Instead of arguing, just go ahead.

http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC


Corinna

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