Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 10:18:00 +0100 Message-ID: <1589-Tue07Aug2001101801+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> X-Mailer: 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid (via feedmail 9-beta-7 I); VM 6.92 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid From: David Starks-Browning MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: wguynes@mav.net Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Possible to login as different user? In-Reply-To: References: <8839-Mon06Aug2001094104+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> On Monday 6 Aug 01, William Guynes writes: > On Mon, 6 Aug 2001 09:41:04 +0100, David Starks-Browning > wrote: > >I don't use su or login, so I need help with this FAQ entry. > > The only things I can think of would be some form of explanation of > why "su" was removed and, possibly, some instructions of how to get > "login" working. You mean, beyond what's in /usr/doc/Cygwin/login.README? If that file is incomplete or inadequate, we should work on that, rather than add to the FAQ. > Any security risks in doing so could be detailed. > > Potential Risk: Don't let a default installation give a user a > backdoor to possibly bypass NT user security. (?) Sorry, what do you mean? If you can explain this to me I would consider putting something in the FAQ. Though if it's login+Cygwin related, I might argue that it goes in /usr/doc/Cygwin/login.README. (I don't rely on Cygwin for any security, except to let ssh encrypt my remote logins. So I don't pay attention to these issues, so I can't write about them in the FAQ.) Hope this helps. Regards, David (Cygwin FAQ maintainer) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/