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Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 10:53:22 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen AT cygnus DOT com>
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Ed Eden wrote:
> >if I do an 'su - guest' or 'su - tuser1' , I get
> >
> >'su: cannot set user id: Not owner'

You can't change user context without giving a password
and if the process has special permissions.

> >1. should there be a root with uid 0 and should Everyone be something
> >else?

All one.

> >2. I read the changes in 1.1.3 about the extra function calls to
> >support setuid, where is the best documentation and hopefully some
> >examples for this.

If you have installed the whole net release:

/usr/doc/Cygwin/inetutils-1.3.2.README

else install inetutils from cygwin/latest from your favorite mirror.

Example: sources of `login' as well from your favorite mirror.

cygwin/latest/login/login-1.4-src.tar.gz

Hope, that helps,
Corinna

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