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 Mar 2004 13:40:08 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: suid bit on executables? In-Reply-To: <20040323181654.GB6673@redhat.com> Message-ID: References: <20040323181654.GB6673@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 12:11:38PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >OTOH, once cygserver is in place, we'll have a working "su" (which is > >exactly what you want, right?). > > I just want to clarify that cygserver.exe is in place and functional right > now. It just doesn't support "su" or "suid"... yet. > > cygserver works just fine for providing SysV IPC support, however. > cgf Yeah, my fingers running ahead of the brain there... Sorry. The above should have said something like "...once all of the functionality planned for cygserver is in place...". 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/