On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 06:56:08PM -0700, Richard Troy wrote: > [...] First of all, it's not bash but the OS (here Cygwin) which would have to care for the suid bit.
Second, the suid bit is available with ntsec on NTFS file systems but for now it's *only* available as a flag. It has no effect! The implementation of suid under Win32 requires a running daemon with special permissions (running under SYSTEM account, that is) which can start a process under a different user account on behalf of the calling process. The daemon already exists but the suid functionality isn't implemented yet. It requires a person with a lot of time, actually... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
