NFS server (final?)

Robb, Sam sam.robb@timesys.com
Thu Feb 13 19:25:00 GMT 2003


> > What's the recommended way of dealing with this?  The code 
> in the server
> > does something along the lines of:
> > 
> > 	seteuid(ROOT_UID)
> > 	setegid(gid)
> > 	setgroups(len, gids)
> > 	seteuid(uid)
> > 
> > (Error checking obviously ignored.)  From what I can tell 
> in the Cygwin
> > docs, the seteuid(ROOT_UID) call shouldn't be neccesary:
> 
> That's right.  I'd suggest you suggest running it under 
> SYSTEM account.
> E. g. cron relies on that, too.

Corinna,

  Thanks you very much!  I'll make the changes, rebuild and
post new binaries & source today.

  Thanks again,

-Samrobb



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