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[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: csih-0.1.7-1


csih (cygwin-service-installation-helper) provides a library of shell
functions that can be used by other cygwin packages that provide servers
and daemons. It can assist in various service installation tasks, such as:

* identifying the underlying Windows OS
* detecting whether a "privileged user" exists and what its name is
  (that is, a user account with enhanced privileges necessary for
  some services)
* creating a privileged user if one doesn't already exist (assuming the
  caller has permissions to create new users, of course)
* creating "normal" users
* obtaining the (localized) name of well known accounts (Guest,
  Administrator)

It is currently used by inetutils(iu-config, syslogd-config),
sspi(sspi-config), sysvinit(init-config). csih should not be used
directly; instead, config scripts like the ones mentioned above should
'source' the csih script, and then use the functions provided.


Changes (since 0.1.4-1)
======================
* tweak permissions for privileged user
* new utility program getVolInfo
* accept privileged accounts that exist only in /etc/passwd (e.g.
  privileged accounts that are domain, not local, ones).
* Don't report permissions-related errors if files are hosted
  on file systems that do no support access control (FAT, old SAMBA).
  csih_path_supports_acls().
* Even on NT/2k/XP, prefer to use a privileged user (as opposed to
  SYSTEM) if a well-known one already exists on the machine (local
  account, or domain account listed in /etc/passwd)
* Add better support for cygwin-1.7
* Add better support for Vista
* bug fixes

-- 
Chuck

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To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on
the http://cygwin.com/ web page.  This downloads setup.exe to your
system.  Then, run setup and answer all of the questions.


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