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From: ASSI <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: crontab message "must be privileged to use -u"
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Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 08:01:39 +0100
In-Reply-To: <da616bfd-93d5-28ff-ccdd-6f9cb0c9803e@SystematicSw.ab.ca> (Brian
 Inglis's message of "Wed, 18 Mar 2020 19:25:20 -0600")
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Brian Inglis writes:
> Installed libfakesu - fakesu just scans source for functions it can fake - it is
> undocumented and not obvious how you are meant to run it.
> One library function can implement suid/sgid exe permission bits.

Sorry, then I misremembered what it was for back from the discussion
when the package was introduced.  Come to think of it, such a wrapper
(however useful) would likely not easily be possible on Windows unless
it was drawing on some (not-yet-existing) facilities in the Cygwin DLL.


Regards,
Achim.
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