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Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 16:20:54 -0400
From: Jason Tishler <jason AT tishler DOT net>
Subject: Re: Multiple users in fetchmail
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Corinna,

On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 08:03:16PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 11:19:49AM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote:
> > Unfortunately, I also have to teach fetchmail that a UID of 18 is
> > equivalent to 0 (i.e., root) under Cygwin.  Without this "ctl->uid"
> > above is always 18 and *not* the user's real UID.  It will take me
> > some time to track this down...  And I hope that the fetchmail
> > maintainer will accept such a patch...
> 
> I used a new define called ROOT_UID in two projects:
> 
> #ifdef __CYGWIN__
> #define ROOT_UID 18
> #else
> #define ROOT_UID 0
> #endif
> 
> Just a suggestion,

Thanks for the hint -- I had already found it and was planning on
using it.

It's probably too late, but why doesn't Cygwin use a UID of 0 instead of
18 for system?  Wouldn't this make porting setuid() programs to Cygwin
easier?

Thanks,
Jason

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