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Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:31:48 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Cc: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre.Humblet@ieee.org>
Subject: Re: unpatching sshd
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	"Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre.Humblet@ieee.org>
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Hi Pierre,

On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 09:26:53PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> Corinna,
> 
> now that setuid works posixly on Win95, sshd can be unpatched.
> 
> Pierre
> 
> 
> --- session.c.orig      2003-02-10 10:12:13.000000000 -0500
> +++ session.c   2003-02-10 10:13:08.000000000 -0500
> @@ -1249,9 +1249,6 @@ do_setusercontext(struct passwd *pw)
>                 permanently_set_uid(pw);
>  #endif
>         }
> -#ifdef HAVE_CYGWIN
> -       if (is_winnt)
> -#endif
>         if (getuid() != pw->pw_uid || geteuid() != pw->pw_uid)
>                 fatal("Failed to set uids to %u.", (u_int) pw->pw_uid);
>  }
> 

sorry, no.  Remember that you created that patch so that it's backward
compatible to previous versions of Cygwin.  Testing the uid now would
break that.

Corinna

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