On Mar 23 08:22, Richard Troy wrote: > One additional challenge that has just occurred to me in my particular > scenario is that in ordinary useage on Unix, my program that runs under > the suid bit eventually launches a Java program that creates display > windows and attaches to the keyboard/mouse in the usual way and the user > never knows it's running as the file owner and not them. Before I go
Google is your friend. Search for "Allow service to interact with desktop". > Next, I can see how an account that has a particular privilege that > provides all of the necessary access can have its shell re-directed to be > a particular program other than a usual shell (just update /etc/passwd, > right?) and can have a null passphraise providing a key-access > (passwordless access) to the desired account by other users, captured so man sshd, chapter "AUTHORIZED_KEYS FILE FORMAT" Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/