csih (cygwin-service-installation-helper) provides a library of shell functions that can be used by other cygwin packages that provide servers and daemons. It can assist in various service installation tasks, such as:
* identifying the underlying Windows OS * detecting whether a "privileged user" exists and what its name is (that is, a user account with enhanced privileges necessary for some services) * creating a privileged user if one doesn't already exist (assuming the caller has permissions to create new users) * creating "normal" users * obtaining the (localized) name of well known accounts (Guest, Administrator) It is currently used by inetutils(iu-config, syslogd-config), openssh (ssh-host-config, ssh-user-config), sspi(sspi-config), sysvinit(init-config), and various others. csih should not be used directly; instead, config scripts like the ones mentioned above should 'source' the csih script, and then use the functions provided. [[ cygwin binary utilities compiled using gcc-4.5.3-3 ]] [[ native binary utilities compiled using mingw-gcc-4.5.2-1 ]] CHANGES (since 0.9.4) ======================== o native/Makefile: Avoid -mno-cygwin and gcc3; use mingw cross compiler. o native/winProductName.c (GetOSDisplayString): Support Windows 8 and Windows Server 8. Improve support for various Microsoft OS products. o New functions csih_is_windows8(), csih_is_exactly_windows8(), and csih_is_exactly_windows8server(). o In csih_account_has_necessary_privileges(), no longer attempt to validate membership in Administrators group -- the test doesn't work properly on domains anyway. Just try to set the necessary rights and report error if the operation fails. Reported by Corinna Vinschen. o In csih_create_privileged_user(), don't attempt to check whether /usr/bin/passwd has the -e option; all versions of passwd shipped with cygwin-1.7.x support it. Reported by Tom Schutter. o Fixed bug related to the various existing csih_is_exactly_* functions. -- Charles Wilson volunteer csih maintainer for cygwin ==================================================================== To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run setup and answer all of the questions. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: [email protected] If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sourceware.org/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL.
