Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 09:24:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Manipulating user privileges (was Re: SSHD, Cygwin and Windows 2003) In-Reply-To: <20030923082733.GA17175@cygbert.vinschen.de> Message-ID: References: <1063654188.1917.126.camel@localhost> <20030916101310.GP9981@cygbert.vinschen.de> <001701c37d79$4406b170$a500000a@chrismob> <20030918075250.GR9981@cygbert.vinschen.de> <035201c3814a$45d5fa40$ac3e4381@chrismob> <20030923082733.GA17175@cygbert.vinschen.de> Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 09:43:45PM +0100, Chris Rodgers wrote: > > OK. I've had a crack at this. The packages can be found at: > > http://rodgers.org.uk/editrights/ > > and are released under a BSD-style licence. > > Would you mind to send an ITP message to cygwin-apps@cygwin.com as > described under http://cygwin.com/setup.html#submitting? > > The package is more or less preapproved but I would like to discuss > a few details (on cygwin-apps, which is the appropriate list for > package maintainer discussions). > > E.g. adding and removing and listing are very talkative by default. > While the listing option allows to add a -q option, this doesn't work > for -a and -r. > > It's your tool, after all, but IMHO it would be more suitable for > scripting to turn around the behaviour: No output on -a and -r if > they work, error output otherwise, only listing the rights with -l. > The lot of output only with additional verbose option. > > Corinna Also error codes on failure, and the ability to check whether a user has certain rights (without using grep). If we decide to adopt it as a package, could we have a CVS repository for it under cygwin-apps (like for cygrunsrv), controlled by Chris (Rodgers), so that people can submit patches against CVS if need be? Unless Chris plans to release it totally separate from Cygwin... Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/