On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 11:01:59AM -0500, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: >On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 02:30:47PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: >> At 05:30 AM 9/7/2003, Fermin Sanchez you wrote: >> >I did a chmod 664 on /var/log/lastlog, now it works. Thank you again! >> >One good side effect: I'm going to put all this information into a "how >> >to install and run cygwin and sshd on a Windows Server 2003 Domain >> >Controller" ;-) >> >> It would be great to see this as an addition to the Cygwin docs and/or >> automated by the post-install script too. Just a thought. > >Personally I think this is a candidate for a specific package README, >though maybe some language could be added to "Security" section of the >User's Guide.
I'm not sure I understand the argument against automatically setting the permissions on /var/log/lastlog to something which would allow a properly privileged account to access the file. It seems like this is a good post-install candidate to me. cgf -- 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/
