RFD: Dropping subauth support

Corinna Vinschen vinschen@redhat.com
Fri Jun 14 09:59:00 GMT 2002


On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 12:47:09PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
> even WinNT, will be very old and not widely used, but WinXPhome and W2k 
> and whatever follows will account for a huge percentage of our installed 
> base.
> 
> At that time, it would not be unreasonable to start using subauth...and 
> I'd hate for someone to re-invent the wheel.  It does little harm to 
> keep the code in until then, does it?

Sure.  If there wouldn't be one problem.  I said it works on W2K only.
And I *mean* W2K only.  It doesn't work on XP anymore.  So there's
little gain in keeping that code for a later time, AFAICS.  Removing
the code would clean up the setuid stuff a bit.

Corinna



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