Re: dselect - formally Re: Running as root

2006-07-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 03:49:13PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 12:19:58AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: >>>Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 09:49:02PM +1000, Stephen Grant Brown wrote: > >I am unable to use dselect for the insp

Re: dselect - formally Re: Running as root

2006-07-18 Thread Max Bowsher
Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 12:19:58AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: >> Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 09:49:02PM +1000, Stephen Grant Brown wrote: I am unable to use dselect for the inspection of packages in the Debian distribution. >>> Ok. U

Re: dselect - formally Re: Running as root

2006-07-17 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 12:19:58AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 09:49:02PM +1000, Stephen Grant Brown wrote: I am unable to use dselect for the inspection of packages in the Debian distribution. Ok. Unless someone steps

Re: dselect - formally Re: Running as root

2006-07-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 12:19:58AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 09:49:02PM +1000, Stephen Grant Brown wrote: >>>I am unable to use dselect for the inspection of packages in the Debian >>>distribution. >> >>Ok. Unless someone steps forward who is wi

Re: dselect - formally Re: Running as root

2006-07-17 Thread Max Bowsher
Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 09:49:02PM +1000, Stephen Grant Brown wrote: >> I am unable to use dselect for the inspection of packages in the Debian >> distribution. > > Ok. Unless someone steps forward who is willing to maintain dpkg, it will > be removed from the distrib

Re: dselect - formally Re: Running as root

2006-07-17 Thread Igor Peshansky
First off, <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>. Thanks. Secondly, attaching a BMP file to show the output of a text-only program is pretty wasteful (not to mention bothersome to open). More below. Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 7:17 PM Subject: Re: dselect - formally Re: Running as root > St

Re: dselect - formally Re: Running as root

2006-07-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 09:49:02PM +1000, Stephen Grant Brown wrote: >I am unable to use dselect for the inspection of packages in the Debian >distribution. Ok. Unless someone steps forward who is willing to maintain dpkg, it will be removed from the distribution in a few days. cgf -- Unsubscr

Re: dselect - formally Re: Running as root

2006-07-17 Thread Dave
Stephen Grant Brown wrote: > The output of the program (which is dselect) I am having trouble with is > in the attached file. > How do I find out which file has read-only access? > > I am making the assumption that if a program is in the cygwin > distribution, the cygwin community would like to

Re: Running as root

2006-07-16 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Stephen Grant Brown wrote: Hi Igor, If you want to do something more complex than fooling a broken program into thinking that you're root, you might need to learn more about how Windows privileges work. Google, as always, is your friend, and discussion like this is probably off-topic for this

Re: Running as root

2006-07-16 Thread Stephen Grant Brown
Hi Igor, If you want to do something more complex than fooling a broken program into thinking that you're root, you might need to learn more about how Windows privileges work. Google, as always, is your friend, and discussion like this is probably off-topic for this list. I look at things dif

Re: Running as root

2006-06-20 Thread Igor Peshansky
PCYMTNQREAIYR> (yes, even your own). Let's not feed the spammers any more than we have to. > Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2006 3:56 AM > Subject: Re: Running as root > > > On Sat, 17 Jun 2006, Stephen Grant Brown wrote: > > > Hi There > > > > > > I would li

Re: Running as root

2006-06-20 Thread Stephen Grant Brown
Hi All - Original Message - From: "Igor Peshansky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Stephen Grant Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2006 3:56 AM Subject: Re: Running as root On Sat, 17 Jun 2006, Stephen Grant Brown wrote: Hi There I wo

Re: Running as root

2006-06-17 Thread Igor Peshansky
for me to understand. > > Can somebody explain how to do this to me in a more simplified format > please? That depends on what you want to do. If you are sure your login account has enough privileges, and you simply have a program that non-portably checks whether you're running as root

Re: Running as root

2006-06-17 Thread Václav Haisman
Stephen Grant Brown wrote, On 17.6.2006 13:21: > Hi There > I would like to run programs as root, which means the userid and group > need to be set to 0, and the name needs to = root. > I have looked through the ntsec.html document and I afraid it is too > complicated for me to understand. > Can

Running as root

2006-06-17 Thread Stephen Grant Brown
Hi There I would like to run programs as root, which means the userid and group need to be set to 0, and the name needs to = root. I have looked through the ntsec.html document and I afraid it is too complicated for me to understand. Can somebody explain how to do this to me in a more simplified