From 798afebc20b8ed5d7672693478fbd4bf7346e74f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 17:32:38 +0000
Subject: 	* cygserver.sgml: Document new feature to store hidden
 passwords 	for seteuid.

---
 winsup/doc/cygserver.sgml | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

(limited to 'winsup/doc/cygserver.sgml')

diff --git a/winsup/doc/cygserver.sgml b/winsup/doc/cygserver.sgml
index 2f34bbbd7..e34671358 100644
--- a/winsup/doc/cygserver.sgml
+++ b/winsup/doc/cygserver.sgml
@@ -17,6 +17,14 @@
   <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>
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