X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:14:11 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: backup privileges [was: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.22-1] Message-ID: <20061130151411.GE8792@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20061130090441.GA25001@calimero.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Nov 30 09:50, Igor Peshansky wrote: > Remember how much effort was spent trying to fix Cygwin to work for > unprivileged users? Do you now, all of a sudden, want to break expected > behavior for privileged users? I'm sorry but I really don't understand the problem. Cygwin allows administrators to do more stuff than what they usually can do when running a DOS shell, which is, doing stuff which they can do as admins under any POSIX system. POSIX apps running under a privileged account (and the users) usually expect to be able to do stuff which they can't when running under a non-admin account, for instance, cd'ing into directories which have, say, permissions set to a-rwx. This will actually *help* admins to restore screwed up installations. This is IMO the right thing to do. I didn't expect to get told that this is "breaking" something. It's really weird. Usually Cygwin gets kicked for non-POSIXy behaviour. Apparently there's no way to do something right :( Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/