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On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 15:35, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > At 09:09 AM 11/4/2002 +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > >I'd rather extract the ntsec unix->win32 acl logic to a static library > >that both cygwin1.dll and setup.exe can incorporate. > > Isolating ntsec in a library is a big job, unnecessary. > Setup probably needs only a small part of ntsec. Copying some > functions from sec_acl.cc and security.cc should be enough. And will inevitable lead to skew in the future. Besides which, we don't need *all* of ntsec in said library, only the stuff to be used by setup. > It seems to me that the main thing we want setup to set is the acl > entry for the owner (which will Administrators if the user running > setup is privileged) What if the user has setup their security differently? Say they want 'Security-Staff' as the grout for 'root' and 'Domain\\Administrator' as the user for root? Setting it wrongly in this environment would (AFAICT) cause problems. Rob -- --- GPG key available at: http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt. ---
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