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From: "BB" <canofspam AT att DOT net>
Subject: Re: proposed mkpasswd change
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 15:09:30 -0500
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"Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre DOT humblet AT ieee DOT org> wrote in message
news:20030411170743 DOT GA635217 AT Worldnet...
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 01:25:07PM -0500, BB wrote:
> > I'm not sure if this is the correct group for this.
> > What is the correct group to propose patches to Cygwin?
> >
> > As I stated in an earlier post, in order to run cron on Win9x, a SYSTEM
user
> > with RID 18 user needs to be defined in /etc/passwd.  mkpasswd was
recently
> > modified to add the admin user.  Would is make sense to also add SYSTEM
user
> > also?  The only effect of this that I can see is that cron will begin to
> > work a bit more.  Otherwise, I don't think the extra entry in
/etc/passwd
> > will effect any thing.
>
> Or (better?) patch cron.c not to call set_cron_uid on Cygwin, as
> is already the case in crontab.c
> I don't think it's helpful to setuid(ROOT) on Cygwin.
>
> Pierre
>
That does sound better.  Would it be a patch for all versions?
On WinNT/2K/XP, if it's executed by the cygrunsv service it
would run as the same user as specified when installed
with cygrunsrv.  The default it SYSTEM.




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