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Re: cygwin-services-helper [was: Re: [ITA] inetutils-1.5-1]


On Feb 28 11:34, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Actually it's deprecated to use the SYSTEM account for services unless
> the service really needs SYSTEM permissions.  In XP Microsoft
> started with introducing the "LocalService" (S-1-5-19) and
> "NetworkService" (S-1-5-20) accounts which have much less rights than
> SYSTEM and Vista introduces a much more fine grained concept.
> 
> Maybe we should always add the above two service accounts to /etc/passwd.
> It's a small tweak to mkpasswd which might have some benefits.

Done.


Corinna

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