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Re: cygrunsrv


On Apr 25 07:10, Karl M wrote:
> Hi All...
> 
> In testing out my keychain service on a new XP system, I was thinking about 
> all of the questions
> that have shown up on the cygwin@... list in the past about launching a 
> service from a user-id other than SYSTEM. And...I was wondering how you(s) 
> felt about adding the ability for cygrunsrv to change user-id before 
> running the target application.

It sounds a bit confusing to me.  The result are two different ways
to install a service as user with one of them somewhat obfuscated.

> Are there any negatives to doing it?

Is there any additional gain over installing as user?

> Or...Corinna...if it is easy, is this something that you would consider 
> adding?

This is a clear case of http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC

The sources of cygrunsrv are in CVS on sourceware as module "cygrunsrv"
in the repository :pserver:anoncvs@cygwin.com:/cvs/cygwin-apps.


Corinna

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