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Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 11:13:04 -0400
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On 07/23/2014 07:35 AM, D. Boland wrote:

<snip>

> It actually is my solution to running Sendmail: create the Sendmail user, called
> 'smmsp' and make it an Administrator, so it can impersonate users on my system.
> But I don't like my solution, because this would mean I have to create an admin-user
> for any Linux service that I install. So now my Cygwin setup would be crowded with
> highly
> privileged daemons, listening, waiting to get hacked.
>
> The more elegant solution would be to create only one secondary privileged user,
> let's call it 'root' ;-).

I believe what you're referring to here is 'cyg-server' which Cygwin already
has.  Corinna referenced this here:

<https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-07/msg00196.html>

-- 
Larry

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A: Yes.
 > Q: Are you sure?
 >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
 >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

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