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authorCorinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>2008-12-02 17:32:38 +0000
committerCorinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>2008-12-02 17:32:38 +0000
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* cygserver.sgml: Document new feature to store hidden passwords
for seteuid.
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<listitem><para>XSI IPC Message Queues.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>XSI IPC Semaphores.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>XSI IPC Shared Memory.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Allows non-privileged users to store obfuscated
+ passwords in the registry to be used by <command>setuid</command> and
+ <command>seteuid</command> calls to create user tokens with network
+ credentials. This service is used by <command><link
+ linkend="passwd">passwd</link> -R</command>. Using the stored
+ passwords in <command>set(e)uid</command> does not require running
+ Cygserver. For details, see <xref linkend="ntsec-nopasswd3"></xref>.
+ </para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>