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

Christian Franke Christian.Franke@t-online.de
Fri Nov 6 17:39:00 GMT 2009


Charles Wilson wrote:
> 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.
>   

I will provide a patch to add the 'cygdrop' tool soon.


Thanks,
Christian



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