Updated: libfakesu 1.1.0

Daniel daniel@boland.nl
Sun Apr 12 13:39:00 GMT 2015


Kelley Cook wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 1:16 PM, Daniel <daniel@boland.nl> wrote:
>> This library simulates the Unix root user. It is meant to make porting
>> Unix programs to Cygwin easier. Many Unix daemon programs, such as
>> Apache, Sendmail and Procmail, start up as root but change to an
>> unprivileged user ID.
>> By including this library, any Cygwin super-user (member of the
>> 'Administrators' group) will be represented with user id '0' to
>> your program.
>>
> 
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> Shouldn't this package be released for cygwin64 also?
> 
> KC
> 
You're right. I will as soon as I get my 64bit machine ready.


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