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| author | Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> | 2009-01-21 17:14:39 +0000 |
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| committer | Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> | 2009-01-21 17:14:39 +0000 |
| commit | 7ffaa17c80379b1a5b5f66865ee72e1c89584386 (patch) | |
| tree | 43f525530c89be0d02f751021356a7c71042d865 /winsup/doc/ntsec.sgml | |
| parent | d9ad7a9c4edb8d5b8cadd7d1f0599c5f45635940 (diff) | |
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ChangeLog:
* configure.in: Remove --enable-server option. Allways add the
cygserver directory to $SUBDIRS.
* configure: Regenerate.
cygwin/ChangeLog:
Remove USE_SERVER define. Accommodate throughout.
* configure.in: Remove --enable-server option.
* configure: Regenerate.
* environ.cc: Remove CYGWIN=server setting.
cygserver/ChangeLog:
* client.cc (allow_server): Remove variable.
(client_request_get_version::client_request_get_version): Drop checking
allow_server.
utils/ChangeLog:
* passwd.c: Remove CYGWIN=server requirement from usage text.
doc/ChangeLog:
* cygserver.sgml: Remove the "How to use the Cygserver services"
section.
* cygwinenv.sgml: Move "(no)server" to the removed options section.
* faq-programming.xml: Remove CYGWIN=server requirement for running
the Cygwin testsuite.
* ntsec.sgml: Ditto for using `passwd -R'.
Diffstat (limited to 'winsup/doc/ntsec.sgml')
| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/doc/ntsec.sgml | 15 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/doc/ntsec.sgml b/winsup/doc/ntsec.sgml index 61059a9a7..168e12000 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/ntsec.sgml +++ b/winsup/doc/ntsec.sgml @@ -790,22 +790,11 @@ all network credentials. Hmm, that's heaven...</para> <para>First, adding a password to the LSA private registry area requires administrative access. So calling <command>passwd -R</command> -as a normal user will fail. Cygwin provides a workaround for +as a normal user will fail! Cygwin provides a workaround for this. If <command>cygserver</command> is started as a service running under the SYSTEM account (which is the default way to run <command>cygserver</command>) you can use <command>passwd -R</command> -as normal, non-privileged user as well. Just keep in mind that this -requires to set the environment variable CYGWIN to contain the word -"server" before running <command>passwd -R</command>, if it's not -already set anyway. See <xref linkend="using-cygwinenv"></xref>. -Example:</para> - -<screen> -bash$ echo $CYGWIN -tty -bash$ export CYGWIN="tty server" -bash$ passwd -R -</screen> +as normal, non-privileged user as well.</para> <para>Second, as aforementioned, the password is two-way encrypted in a hidden, obfuscated registry area. Only SYSTEM has access to this area |