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Re: RFD: Dropping subauth support
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 12:47:09PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
> even WinNT, will be very old and not widely used, but WinXPhome and W2k
> and whatever follows will account for a huge percentage of our installed
> base.
>
> At that time, it would not be unreasonable to start using subauth...and
> I'd hate for someone to re-invent the wheel. It does little harm to
> keep the code in until then, does it?
Sure. If there wouldn't be one problem. I said it works on W2K only.
And I *mean* W2K only. It doesn't work on XP anymore. So there's
little gain in keeping that code for a later time, AFAICS. Removing
the code would clean up the setuid stuff a bit.
Corinna