X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: From: Karl M To: Subject: RE: Cygwin 1.7 setup question Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 13:54:52 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20090514192223.GF21324@calimero.vinschen.de> References: <20090514192223.GF21324@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 ---------------------------------------- > Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 21:22:23 +0200 > From: corinna > Subject: Re: Cygwin 1.7 setup question > > On May 14 10:38, Karl M wrote: >> >> Hi All... >> >> In the recent setup discussion, there was objection to administrators.no= ne as the default for setup to use. I'm not suggesting any changes, just as= king questions for my own understanding. >> >> Would administrators.none cause any security issues on an install? > > Probably not, except that all local users are member of the None group. > If file are created with 775 or 664 permissions (which hopefully no > package uses), then every local, authenticated user can change the file. > >> Is setup expected to eventually run postinstall scripts as administrator= .administrators instead of administrators.none? > > It's not running scripts as administrators.none, it's running them as > user.users-primary-group. That's "None" for all local accounts. > Is this setup behavior expected to stay the same, or eventually run them as= administrator.administrators?=20 Thanks, ...Karl _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail=AE has ever-growing storage! Don=92t worry about storage limits. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/Storage?ocid=3DTXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tuto= rial_Storage1_052009 -- 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/