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Re: proposed mkpasswd change
- From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre dot humblet at ieee dot org>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 13:07:43 -0400
- Subject: Re: proposed mkpasswd change
- References: <b77192$gp1$1@main.gmane.org>
On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 01:25:07PM -0500, BB wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is the correct group for this.
> What is the correct group to propose patches to Cygwin?
>
> As I stated in an earlier post, in order to run cron on Win9x, a SYSTEM user
> with RID 18 user needs to be defined in /etc/passwd. mkpasswd was recently
> modified to add the admin user. Would is make sense to also add SYSTEM user
> also? The only effect of this that I can see is that cron will begin to
> work a bit more. Otherwise, I don't think the extra entry in /etc/passwd
> will effect any thing.
Or (better?) patch cron.c not to call set_cron_uid on Cygwin, as
is already the case in crontab.c
I don't think it's helpful to setuid(ROOT) on Cygwin.
Pierre
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