The eternal uid issue

Wed Jul 23 15:13:00 GMT 2014

On 07/23/2014 07:35 AM, D. Boland wrote:
<snip>
> It actually is my solution to running Sendmail: create the Sendmail user, called
> 'smmsp' and make it an Administrator, so it can impersonate users on my system.
> But I don't like my solution, because this would mean I have to create an admin-user
> for any Linux service that I install. So now my Cygwin setup would be crowded with
> highly
> privileged daemons, listening, waiting to get hacked.
>> The more elegant solution would be to create only one secondary privileged user,
> let's call it 'root' ;-).

I believe what you're referring to here is 'cyg-server' which Cygwin already
has. Corinna referenced this here:
<https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-07/msg00196.html>
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Larry
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