Paul,
> Thanks, that all looks good to me.
OK, I've pushed it.
> I don't know the distinction between runas and runas /env
[1] explains it. I don't think there is a security pitfall here: The
responsibility is with the user who runs a 'runas' command or installs
a scripts that runs 'runas'.
>
Bruno Haible wrote:
Also, Paul, why not add an implementation for Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, etc.
as well?
Find attached a proposed implementation for all platforms. For your review.
Thanks, that all looks good to me.
Nikos, I was demurring because I don't know MS-Windows, e.g., I don't know the
d
Hi Nikos,
Thanks for the suggestion.
But we need to distinguish native Windows and Cygwin.
Native Windows does not have a setuid concept, but Cygwin has. [1]
Also, in the code, the "# ifdef _WIN32" conditional is wrong.
1) It is a compiler-dependent conditional. In order to treat the
GCC and
On Sat, 2016-05-28 at 23:53 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote:
> >
> > secure_getenv()
> > has no (known to me) meaning for windows, and that's why I'd expect
> > that call there to behave as getenv().
> I'm afraid that this doesn't answer my question. I was asking why the
