On Aug 16 10:14, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 16 10:07, D. Boland wrote: > > Hi Corinna, > > > > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > > [...] > > > > I forgot the prep stage. > > > > > > > > I re-made the binary package and its source package with cygport (nice > > > > program btw): > > > > > > > > http://cygwin.boland.nl/x86/release/procmail/ > > > > > > > > I had to cheat a little (see 'src_compile' in .cygport file) because > > > > the source has to be compiled with a library, called 'suexec'. In > > > > there are the function overrides to make 'multi-root' and suid/guid > > > > possible. > > > > > > > > To make the Procmail and Sendmail packages completely 'clean' I would > > > > like to ITP this library as a new package. > > > > > > Definitely. If a library is a prerequisite for the package, you should > > > ITP it before we upload any dependent package. If the build is ok, it's > > > more or less preapproved if it's GTG. > > > > > > I'm just a bit puzzled. Isn't suexec an application, and isn't it part > > > of apache, usually? Also, since when is procmail dependent on suexec? > > > It isn't on Fedora and they certainly use almost all of procmail's > > > features... > > > > You are right, suexec is an Apache program. I created this library myself > > and > > borrowed the name from Apache. It solves the impersonation problem by making > > procmail 'multi-root' aware. I wrote a small article on it in my ITP of > > libsuexec. > > procmail works from sendmail in a multi-user scenario on Fedora without > this tool. Why does this solution not work for Cygwin?
Disregard this question. The expression "multi-root" totally puzzeled me. Let's follow up with the libsuexec ITP. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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