This is the mail archive of the cygwin mailing list for the Cygwin project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Porting issues: file owned by root, user nobody


My issues concern porting a Linux application to cygwin. I read http://cygwin.com/faq/ but I did not find answers. If there is another resource I should read, please advise.

The application is "dnrd," published on SourceForge For security reasons, dnrd
1. Insists that its config files be owned by root.
2. Changes its uid to "nobody," using setuid().


Has the cygwin community settled on uniform methods to deal with these programming tasks?

For the file ownership issue, I just have to decide if the appropriate owner is SYSTEM, Administrator, or something else. And what about group ownership?

For the uid issue, I might have to create an unprivileged account to take the place of "nobody." Unless a more clever solution has been worked out. Also, setuid() always fails for me. Are there limitations to this function in cygwin?

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]