[Patch] Allow to disable root privileges with CYGWIN=noroot

Christian Franke Christian.Franke@t-online.de
Wed Oct 14 11:49:00 GMT 2009


Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> Cool.  Another interesting option could be to remove the domain admins
> group as well, if the user is a domain user and, of course, removing
> any single user right, similar to the "capsh" tool under SELinux.
> 

Yes, makes sense.


> I'm just not sure if that tool should be part of the Cygwin package or
> a package of its own right.  I'm leaning towards the latter choice.
> 
> 

... or add it to the cygutils package ?


Is there any tool to print the info provided by GetTokenInformation() ?

I have a preliminary version of such a tool and can contribute it later
if desired.

Christian





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