New configuration scripts for Cygwin

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 09:09:24AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 12:34:58AM -0600, mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org wrote:
> > There was an S/Key change that I commited tonight.  Could you verify that
> > auth1.c around like 325 if that is the correct location for that little
> > CYGWIN, or if it should go after the root checking case.  Assuming that
> > the root check is even valid under Cygwin.
> 
> For some reason I don't get your changes from CVS. I just tried it
> and it doesn't contain any changes.
> 
> However, a root check isn't valid for Cygwin. Admins are either
> non existant (Windows 9x/ME) or they are a whole group of people
> having a combination of special "user rights" (NT/W2K).
> 
> A portable solution for root checks at all would be to substitute
> all checks for uid/gid 0 by two OS dependent check_uid_root(uid),
> check_gid_root() functions.

Ok, I could check the code and it looks fine.

Thanks,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Developer
Red Hat, Inc.
mailto:vinschen at redhat.com