Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 21:02:04 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: (Fwd) CYGWIN=nontsec nontea ??? Message-ID: <20010504210204.I24200@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <3AF3048F.13957.1EEBA8D@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3AF3048F.13957.1EEBA8D@localhost>; from gerrit.haase@t-online.de on Fri, May 04, 2001 at 07:35:43PM +0200 On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 07:35:43PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > > That is dubios... > will it work if i set ntsec and ntea? > > root@ISMENE ~ > $ id > uid=500(root) gid=544(root) groups=544(root) > > root@ISMENE ~ > $ /usr/sbin/fetchnews -vvv > /usr/sbin/fetchnews: must be run as news or root > > > >From the source: > > setgid( pw->pw_gid ); > setuid( pw->pw_uid ); > if ( getuid() = pw->pw_uid || getgid() = pw->pw_gid ) { ^^^ ^^^ These both shouldn't work here. > fprintf( stderr, "%s: must be run as news or root\n", progname ); > return FALSE; > } > > Is getuid or getgid not working on cygwin? Nope, it's setuid which can't change the user context without a password. Result: The uid isn't changed... Did you read the ntsec chapter in the users guide? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple