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* Re: Updated: libfakesu 1.1.0
       [not found] <551D7957.2000408@boland.nl>
@ 2015-04-10 15:12 ` Kelley Cook
  2015-04-12 13:39   ` Daniel
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Kelley Cook @ 2015-04-10 15:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: The Cygwin Mailing List, daniel

On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 1:16 PM, Daniel <daniel@boland.nl> wrote:
> This library simulates the Unix root user. It is meant to make porting
> Unix programs to Cygwin easier. Many Unix daemon programs, such as
> Apache, Sendmail and Procmail, start up as root but change to an
> unprivileged user ID.
> By including this library, any Cygwin super-user (member of the
> 'Administrators' group) will be represented with user id '0' to
> your program.
>

Hi Daniel,

Shouldn't this package be released for cygwin64 also?

KC

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* Re: Updated: libfakesu 1.1.0
  2015-04-10 15:12 ` Updated: libfakesu 1.1.0 Kelley Cook
@ 2015-04-12 13:39   ` Daniel
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Daniel @ 2015-04-12 13:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cygwin

Kelley Cook wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 1:16 PM, Daniel <daniel@boland.nl> wrote:
>> This library simulates the Unix root user. It is meant to make porting
>> Unix programs to Cygwin easier. Many Unix daemon programs, such as
>> Apache, Sendmail and Procmail, start up as root but change to an
>> unprivileged user ID.
>> By including this library, any Cygwin super-user (member of the
>> 'Administrators' group) will be represented with user id '0' to
>> your program.
>>
> 
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> Shouldn't this package be released for cygwin64 also?
> 
> KC
> 
You're right. I will as soon as I get my 64bit machine ready.


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