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Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 09:24:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Manipulating user privileges (was Re: SSHD, Cygwin and Windows
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On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 09:43:45PM +0100, Chris Rodgers wrote:
> > OK. I've had a crack at this. The packages can be found at:
> > http://rodgers.org.uk/editrights/
> > and are released under a BSD-style licence.
>
> Would you mind to send an ITP message to cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com as
> described under http://cygwin.com/setup.html#submitting?
>
> The package is more or less preapproved but I would like to discuss
> a few details (on cygwin-apps, which is the appropriate list for
> package maintainer discussions).
>
> E.g. adding and removing and listing are very talkative by default.
> While the listing option allows to add a -q option, this doesn't work
> for -a and -r.
>
> It's your tool, after all, but IMHO it would be more suitable for
> scripting to turn around the behaviour:  No output on -a and -r if
> they work, error output otherwise, only listing the rights with -l.
> The lot of output only with additional verbose option.
>
> Corinna

Also error codes on failure, and the ability to check whether a user has
certain rights (without using grep).  If we decide to adopt it as a
package, could we have a CVS repository for it under cygwin-apps (like for
cygrunsrv), controlled by Chris (Rodgers), so that people can submit
patches against CVS if need be?  Unless Chris plans to release it totally
separate from Cygwin...
	Igor
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