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Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 12:38:01 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Multiple users in fetchmail
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On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 04:20:54PM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote:
> 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?

Only partly.  There are also applications which ask for the user name
to be "root".  Either way is wrong and non-portable.

Corinna

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