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Re: init and agetty packages available for review/upload. (fwd)


Sergey Okhapkin <sos@prospect.com.ru> wrote:

> Because these scripts are accessible for everyone and may change
> global configuration settings, these scripts are for for cygwin
> administrator only.

They won't be able to do anything that the user didn't have priviledges to
do anyway, but I suppose they could confuse a user.
I suppose there is an argument for putting admin-only scripts in /usr/sbin.
But balance that against increased chance of them not being noticed, and
change of a Cygwin convention.

Max.


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