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From: "Lemke, Michael  ISC 1" <lemkemch AT de DOT ina DOT com>
To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Win98 and multiple users
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 13:57:24 +0200
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> Steve,
> 
> set up your /etc/passwd file (mkpasswd as suggested 
> in other messages, add passwords with crypt [and vi]) 
> and change "bash ..." in cygwin.bat to "login".
> 
> I didn't try if you really see different users with 
> getuid et al. but you do get the real Unix login 
> procedure.  I am doing this on W98SE.  YMMV.
> 
> Michael
> 
> 
> Steve,
> 
> I thought the cygwin heap was, in essence, that virtual machine - it
> stores persistant data across invokations.  All that needs to happen, as
> far as I can see, is for the setuid/seteuid/etc/etc calls to set
> per-process values in the shared memory heap and for getuid/etc... to
> use that value.  The "uid" concept is completely lacking in Win98, so
> cygwin's spoofing that already.
> 
> -- Ft
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> To: "cygwin at cygwin dot Com (E-mail)" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
> Subject: RE: Win98 and multiple users
> From: Steve Jorgensen <jorgens at coho dot net>
> Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 14:07:33 -0700
> Reply-To: "jorgens at coho dot net" <jorgens at coho dot net>
> 
> 
> I'm no Cygwin developer as of yet, but I think I can answer this one.
>  Cygwin, for the most part, provides a 'nix wrapper around Windows, and
> uses Windows to do the work.
> 
> NT allows separate processes to run in different user contexts, but
> Windows
> 98 does not.  Thus, Windows 98 has no applicable functionality to wrap.
>  You would need an entire virtual machine with another copy of Windows
> running another Cygwin to do what you're talking about.
> 
> 
> --
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