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Re: setuid and seteuid
- To: cygwin <cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: setuid and seteuid
- From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 10:53:22 +0200
- References: <4.3.2.7.0.20000906180857.00b53878@postoffice.swbell.net>
- Reply-To: cygwin <cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com>
Ed Eden wrote:
> >if I do an 'su - guest' or 'su - tuser1' , I get
> >
> >'su: cannot set user id: Not owner'
You can't change user context without giving a password
and if the process has special permissions.
> >1. should there be a root with uid 0 and should Everyone be something
> >else?
All one.
> >2. I read the changes in 1.1.3 about the extra function calls to
> >support setuid, where is the best documentation and hopefully some
> >examples for this.
If you have installed the whole net release:
/usr/doc/Cygwin/inetutils-1.3.2.README
else install inetutils from cygwin/latest from your favorite mirror.
Example: sources of `login' as well from your favorite mirror.
cygwin/latest/login/login-1.4-src.tar.gz
Hope, that helps,
Corinna
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