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Re: patch 3: sshd
- From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre dot Humblet at ieee dot org>
- To: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 14:44:47 -0500
- Subject: Re: patch 3: sshd
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> On Wed, 06 Nov 2002 11:36:31 -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> > Currently setuid on Win95/98/ME always returns success
> > but does not change the uid. That confuses some programs
> > that verify if the setuid has really succeeded.
> >
> > It is literally a two line change in Cygwin to fix
> > that, but unfortunately changing uids breaks sshd
> > on Win95/98/ME.
>
> Can we really do this? Doesn't that potentially break something?
It makes Cygwin more unix-like, so it should be OK.
I tested it and the only problem I found was sshd.
Pierre