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Re: setreuid
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 04:52:34PM +0300, Baurjan Ismagulov wrote:
> > Btw., if you're planning to use that account as logon account, don't
> > give these rights to that account. That's very dangerous.
>
> Because of possible privilege escalation, or are there any other
> implications?
Yes, no. ;-)
> > Start a
> > service under system account as inetd and let it handle the user context
> > switch.
>
> Thanks for the tip, I'll do so.
To be more correct: Start inetd or xinetd as service, and add rsync to
/etc/inetd.conf or /etc/xinetd.d/. Or, if rsync can handle this (I don't
know), start it directly from cygrunsrv also under SYSTEM account.
Corinna
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