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Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 11:15:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: Luke Bakken <luke_bakken AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: LPRng for Cygwin v2 - setuid fixes!
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Fellow cygwiners,

Due to popular request, LPRng for Cygwin now considers the "SYSTEM"
account ([ug]id 18) as "root".  This means that editing the passwd and
group files to change the SYSTEM entries is no longer necessary, and that
potential conflicts with "cron" won't occur.

Updated info (with a new download) is at:

http://ics-server.interface-net.com/~lbakken/lprng-cygwin.html

Comments, suggestions and bug reports are welcome and appreciated.

Thanks to those who have given feedback and suggestions already!

Luke

PS - I'm now working on ifhp, the complimentary filter software that is a
useful add-on to LPRng.  It's main feature is it's ability to retrieve
pagecounts from printers to enable accounting.



On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Luke Bakken wrote:

> > So I suggest, the better idea is to modify the source so it fits
> > with the existing passwd and group files, or a 'new' account needs
> > to be invented, like Biggs did it with 'bind', there you create a
> > user 'bin' a group cyg-bin' in the NT useradministration and after
> > adding it to the group/passwd file, the group 'cyg-bin' is renamed
> > to bin, now you have what you need.
> >
> > Maybe it is possible to duplicate the SYSTEM entry and then change
> > the gid, but I'm not sure about this.
>
> that's a good idea - i don't use cron so i didn't anticipate this.  LPRng
> doesn't really require uid 0 and 1, it just made it "easier" to get
> running.  You could add to the configure command:
>
> --with-userid=18 --with-groupid=18
>
> and it would work just as well, without the need for "root" and "daemon".
> However, it would not switch to another user, since currently LPRng thinks
> uid 0 is "root", and that uid 18 doesn't have that capability (even
> though under NT it does).
>
> I'll add this to my web page, and work on changing the source so that for
> Cygwin LPRng thinks uid 18 is "root"!  Thanks.
>
>
> Luke
>
>


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