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, of course) * creating "normal" users * obtaining the (localized) name of well known accounts (Guest, Administrator) It is currently used by inetutils(iu-config, syslogd-config), sspi(sspi-config), sysvinit(init-config). 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. Changes (since 0.1.4-1) ====================== * tweak permissions for privileged user * new utility program getVolInfo * accept privileged accounts that exist only in /etc/passwd (e.g. privileged accounts that are domain, not local, ones). * Don't report permissions-related errors if files are hosted on file systems that do no support access control (FAT, old SAMBA). csih_path_supports_acls(). * Even on NT/2k/XP, prefer to use a privileged user (as opposed to SYSTEM) if a well-known one already exists on the machine (local account, or domain account listed in /etc/passwd) * Add better support for cygwin-1.7 * Add better support for Vista * bug fixes -- Chuck ==================================================================== 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://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
