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Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 15:52:03 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: setreuid
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On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 04:52:34PM +0300, Baurjan Ismagulov wrote:
> > Btw., if you're planning to use that account as logon account, don't
> > give these rights to that account.  That's very dangerous.
> 
> Because of possible privilege escalation, or are there any other
> implications?

Yes, no. ;-)

> > Start a
> > service under system account as inetd and let it handle the user context
> > switch.
> 
> Thanks for the tip, I'll do so.

To be more correct:  Start inetd or xinetd as service, and add rsync to
/etc/inetd.conf or /etc/xinetd.d/.  Or, if rsync can handle this (I don't
know), start it directly from cygrunsrv also under SYSTEM account.

Corinna

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