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

Charles Wilson cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm
Fri Nov 6 00:03:00 GMT 2009


Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Oct 14 13:24, Christian Franke wrote:
>> 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 ?
> 
> Sure, if Chuck likes the idea.

I've no objections to incorporating this/these utilities into cygutils.
 Take a look at
http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/cygutils/HOW-TO-CONTRIBUTE?rev=1.11&cvsroot=cygwin-apps
to see how best to integrate the tool(s) into cygutils.

--
Chuck



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