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RE: Xcdroast
- From: Sylvain Petreolle <spetreolle at yahoo dot fr>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 21:16:05 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: RE: Xcdroast
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Igor,
I have the same setup and dont think that allowing SYSTEM access as
passwordless
is a good idea. And this procedure needs a running sshd and/or inetd.
The reason why we need a "su root" is because xcdroast must be run as
root first to enable the ability to run it as as normal user.
Anyway, I think this can be done via getting it from a linux box and
doing a chown on it. Will try it and post the result.
> goal by setting up sshd and allowing passwordless login as "SYSTEM"
> from your account. You can then do "ssh SYSTEM@localhost".
>
> However, there's still a question of *why* you need to "su root".
> What capabilities of "root" do you need? If you need the ability to
> switch user contexts, then "SYSTEM" as "root" should be fine. If you
need
> to create files owned by "root", then you can make the
"Administrators"
> group
> "root" and simply use "chown".
> Igor
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