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* cygserver.sgml: Document new feature to store hidden passwords

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2008-12-02 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
* cygserver.sgml: Document new feature to store hidden passwords
for seteuid.
2008-12-02 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> 2008-12-02 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
* ntsec.sgml: Finishing up changes for 1.7. * ntsec.sgml: Finishing up changes for 1.7.

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<listitem><para>XSI IPC Message Queues.</para></listitem> <listitem><para>XSI IPC Message Queues.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>XSI IPC Semaphores.</para></listitem> <listitem><para>XSI IPC Semaphores.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>XSI IPC Shared Memory.</para></listitem> <listitem><para>XSI IPC Shared Memory.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allows non-privileged users to store obfuscated
passwords in the registry to be used by <command>setuid</command> and
<command>seteuid</command> calls to create user tokens with network
credentials. This service is used by <command><link
linkend="passwd">passwd</link> -R</command>. Using the stored
passwords in <command>set(e)uid</command> does not require running
Cygserver. For details, see <xref linkend="ntsec-nopasswd3"></xref>.
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist> </itemizedlist>
</sect2> </sect2>