Cygwin service account (Re: inetd help)

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 04:38:58PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Jul 17 10:12, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>> cron-config already has a pretty much self contained function to create
>> such a privileged usr, it would be easy to extend it (if needed). It['s 
>> adapted
>> from Corinna's ssh stuff, and it is also used for exim (add it to the list).
>> 
>> It also looks for typical server names such as sshd_server cyg_server 
>> cron_server
>> and offers to reuse them if they exist.
>
>Sounds good for reuse.
>
>> One issue that I notice is that sshd_server is (at least, "was") setting 
>> its home directory
>> to something special. Is it needed? Other servers may also require unusual 
>> settings.
>> We should identify the superset of the special needs.
>
>No, there's no special need for the home directory of the sshd_server
>account.  I just used /var/empty as for the unprivileged sshd account
>because it sounded like a good idea way back when.  You can set it to
>almost everything.  Maybe we should follow the typical Linux layout
>and create a "/cygwin_server" directory, similar to "/root" on Linux.

Are there bad reasons for not just calling this account "root"?

cgf