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Re: Some questions about the nfs source package was: RE: NFSserver(final?)


Pierre,

On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 12:37:27PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> Jason Tishler wrote:
> > Check out the is_admin() function in setup.exe's mount.cc:
> 
> Sure, it's easy to do using Windows calls.   The issue is that Unix
> has a well defined privileged uid (0) and that's not the case in
> Cygwin.

OK.  I saw the following:

    using "Administrators" only works on English systems.

and knew that I had solved that particular problem in the past.  I was
hoping that it could be massaged into something you could use for this
problem.

Jason

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