Re: cygwin-services-helper [was: Re: [ITA] inetutils-1.5-1]

2008-03-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 4 22:29, Charles Wilson wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: I didn't mean to say that other packages shouldn't use this function library. I was merely saying that other scripts which don't have to switch the user context don't have to be converted in the first place. There's no pressure.

Re: cygwin-services-helper [was: Re: [ITA] inetutils-1.5-1]

2008-03-04 Thread Charles Wilson
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 27 22:22, Charles Wilson wrote: (2) rewrite ssh-host-config to use it (4a) rewrite syslog-ng-config to use it Don't get me wrong. I was not suggesting that you should do all these conversions. It would be nice to have one or two template scripts,

Re: cygwin-services-helper [was: Re: [ITA] inetutils-1.5-1]

2008-02-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 27 22:22, Charles Wilson wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: (4a) rewrite syslog-ng-config to use it Okay, thanks. Don't get me wrong. I was not suggesting that you should do all these conversions. It would be nice to have one or two template scripts, like iu-config and

Re: cygwin-services-helper [was: Re: [ITA] inetutils-1.5-1]

2008-02-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 28 11:34, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Actually it's deprecated to use the SYSTEM account for services unless the service really needs SYSTEM permissions. In XP Microsoft started with introducing the LocalService (S-1-5-19) and NetworkService (S-1-5-20) accounts which have much less rights

Re: cygwin-services-helper [was: Re: [ITA] inetutils-1.5-1]

2008-02-28 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
- Original Message - From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin-apps Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 5:34 AM Subject: Re: cygwin-services-helper [was: Re: [ITA] inetutils-1.5-1] | only reason we need another account for those of our services which have | to switch user context w/o password

Re: cygwin-services-helper [was: Re: [ITA] inetutils-1.5-1]

2008-02-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 27 00:34, Charles Wilson wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 25 20:46, Charles Wilson wrote: [*] or maybe a script function library somewhere like /usr/lib/cygwin-services/ that foo-config could 'source', and then call the functions directly. This would help the enter the password

Re: cygwin-services-helper [was: Re: [ITA] inetutils-1.5-1]

2008-02-27 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 27 00:34, Charles Wilson wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 25 20:46, Charles Wilson wrote: [*] or maybe a script function library somewhere like /usr/lib/cygwin-services/ that foo-config could 'source', and then call the functions

Re: cygwin-services-helper [was: Re: [ITA] inetutils-1.5-1]

2008-02-27 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
- Original Message - From: Charles Wilson To: Mailing List: CygWin-Apps Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 12:34 AM Subject: cygwin-services-helper [was: Re: [ITA] inetutils-1.5-1] | Corinna Vinschen wrote: | On Feb 25 20:46, Charles Wilson wrote: | How about a new package, cygwin

Re: cygwin-services-helper [was: Re: [ITA] inetutils-1.5-1]

2008-02-27 Thread Charles Wilson
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 27 00:34, Charles Wilson wrote: [snip] Wow, thanks for the quick implementation. Unfortunately I won't have time to look into this for now since I have to look into a Win2K problem with network paths. No problem. I just wanted to see how hard it was going to

cygwin-services-helper [was: Re: [ITA] inetutils-1.5-1]

2008-02-26 Thread Charles Wilson
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 25 20:46, Charles Wilson wrote: How about a new package, cygwin-services-helper or somesuch, that contains (1) a script [*] derived from the appropriate portion of sshd-host-config, whose job is to create the appropriate priveleged user (I like 'cygwin_svc')