Re: The Cygwin Server Daemon

2002-04-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 08:51:24AM -0700, Richard Troy wrote: > at this point: _execve() code notices the suid/guid bits are set, checks > that the file owner is not the caller and that the callers group list > does not include the files group id, and dispatches a message to > cygserver. That mes

Re: The cygwin Server Daemon

2002-04-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 08:51:24AM -0700, Richard Troy wrote: >Here's what I envision at this point: _execve() code notices the >suid/guid bits are set, checks that the file owner is not the caller >and that the callers group list does not include the files group id, >and dispatches a message to c

RE: The Cygwin Server Daemon

2002-04-23 Thread Richard Troy
> > The normal install with setup.exe didn't provide cygserver. > > Correct. This was stated in the development list: the source for > cygserver was only merged in post 1.3.10 being released, so no release > of cygwin has occurred with the cygserver built. I missed that in the archive, though

RE: The Cygwin Server Daemon - VERY LONG

2002-04-23 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Richard Troy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 6:25 AM > In doing this compliation and write up a lot of questions yet > remain for > me. There are just a whole lot of loose ends. It's my casual > observation > that the emails in

Re: The Cygwin Server Daemon - VERY LONG

2002-04-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 10:44:27PM -0700, Richard Troy wrote: > Commentary? Anybody know where there's a reasonably concise write up of > this strategy? There are several "how-*.txt" file in the cygwin source dir. Perhaps these are a bit of a help. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen

Re: The Cygwin Server Daemon - VERY LONG

2002-04-22 Thread Richard Troy
Hi All, when I asked: > + Regarding my own hopeful use someday: What is a reasonable approach to > adding the honoring of the setuid (and guid) bit(s) in image execution? > > I take it that cygwin1.dll needs to be changed, but cygwin1.dll seems to > be built of little bits of source c

Re: The Cygwin Server Daemon

2002-04-22 Thread Richard Troy
Hi All, I've finally had a chance to play some. So, there's nothing like trying something! In answer to some of my own questions: > + Why doesn't the cygserver run, itself, as a server under NT much as sshd > does? You can do that. > + Regarding starting the server with cygrunsrv: > > -

The Cygwin Server Daemon - VERY LONG

2002-04-22 Thread Richard Troy
Hello again, Last week when I inquired about the cygserver architecture, present state of development, etc, I was told that cygserver is documented primarily in the cygwin-developers email list archive. I am now working on a document that will hopefully serve as better documentation of cygs