cygwin-services-helper [was: Re: [ITA] inetutils-1.5-1]

[Charles Wilson]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Feb 25 20:46, Charles Wilson wrote:
>> How about a new package, "cygwin-services-helper" or somesuch, that 
>> contains
>>
>> (1) a script [*] derived from the appropriate portion of sshd-host-config, 
>> whose job is to create the appropriate priveleged user (I like 
>> 'cygwin_svc') -- unless it already exists under either name ('cygwin_svc' 
>> or 'sshd_server').
>>
>> (2) maybe another script [*] whose job is to ascertain whether such a user 
>> already exists, and return its name (or "" if not).
>>
>> It would be up to the calling foo-config to use these two scripts 
>> appropriately.  And, of course, the user might have to enter the password 
>> for the priveleged user account twice: once when it is created, and then 
>> again (by foo-config) to install the service 'foo'.
>>
>> Then, openssh (and inetutils, and syslog-ng, and sysvinit, ...) could all 
>> depend on the "cygwin-services-helper" package.
>>
>> [*] or maybe a script function library somewhere like 
>> /usr/lib/cygwin-services/ that foo-config could 'source', and then call the 
>> functions directly.  This would help the "enter the password twice" 
>> problem...
> 
> Sounds good!  The function library would be cool.

Here's my first draft.  Totally untested, almost nuthin' in the way of 
documentation...but I figured I'd post it now, because I won't have time 
for any more cygwin stuff until the weekend...

TODO: (1) test, documentation, bughunt this function library
       (2) rewrite ssh-host-config to use it
       (3) rewrite iu-config to use it
       (4) rewrite syslog-config to use it
       (5) chase setup.exe bug with regards to inetutils' setup.hint
       (6) incorporate bugfix for rshd (and rexecd /does/ have a similar 
bug)
       (7) remove --install-as-service from inetd

       (7a) add code to read existing \\Parameters\ConfigFilePath 
REG_SZ,, instead of ignoring it completely in favor of 
\\Parameters\ConfigFilePaths REG_MULTI_SZ -- probably migrating it over 
to the new REG_MULTI_SZ, since new 1.5 code *expects* at least two 
entries in the char** config_files array.

       (8) batten down the hatches on default inetd.conf
       (9) update inetutils.README to reflect #7 & #8

Yeesh.  This is gonna take a while...

--
Chuck

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