X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:reply-to:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=KmDvneS7dmCXUZOl 1iJRZ3pxxr3h0l1BzWghoRbw20wRVYh6XNzekaLd5JryriLAX3jpCFZagz9H8t4e UjNAwOhmQVUXCuBaIadZevh3hv7l02bvl6Hzmluz4XNzlBrNT+6+fjXXI/ESaozk plHSBptT3lFSZWCqRIRSlCOU32s= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:reply-to:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=A9q/yGRHCn/shmQfqTV54Z w1Kac=; b=w2JqVyMufBTNz2QxbRBnlobXltDi6PUTtLZdjqb05cnT6x5/puOdpV +c19QbCiZZLVR/1Lv15kApKMjZ4WesC+eQgsCrljbxrC/VkbbQ2PT4m8Cr6WUwbk Reojv2jUNqSVLRW9hO9O0Vje5nPa1iBMs9dufZhwwnzYOGmtuLrb4= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: vms173021pub.verizon.net Message-id: <53CFD100.3060106@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 11:13:04 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: The eternal uid issue References: <53CF6CEC DOT 6D68E485 AT boland DOT nl> <20140723091409 DOT GH27005 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <53CF9E0F DOT F596FC60 AT boland DOT nl> In-reply-to: <53CF9E0F.F596FC60@boland.nl> Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit On 07/23/2014 07:35 AM, D. Boland wrote: > It actually is my solution to running Sendmail: create the Sendmail user, called > 'smmsp' and make it an Administrator, so it can impersonate users on my system. > But I don't like my solution, because this would mean I have to create an admin-user > for any Linux service that I install. So now my Cygwin setup would be crowded with > highly > privileged daemons, listening, waiting to get hacked. > > The more elegant solution would be to create only one secondary privileged user, > let's call it 'root' ;-). I believe what you're referring to here is 'cyg-server' which Cygwin already has. Corinna referenced this here: -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple