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* ntsec.sgml: Correct some minor grammatical errors.

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2002-10-22 Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin@yahoo.com>
* ntsec.sgml: Correct some minor grammatical errors.
2002-10-22 Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin@yahoo.com>
* dll.sgml: Simplify dll build instructions.

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@ -130,8 +130,8 @@ set </para></listitem>
<para>The two important types of ACEs are the `access allowed ACE' and the
`access denied ACE'. The ntsec patch only used `access allowed ACEs' up
to Cygwin version 1.1.0. Later versions use `access denied ACEs' as well
to reflect the UNIX permissions as good as possible.</para>
to Cygwin version 1.1.0. Later versions also use `access denied ACEs'
to reflect the UNIX permissions as well as possible.</para>
<para>The possible permissions on objects are more detailed than in
UNIX. For example, the permission to delete an object is different
@ -232,9 +232,9 @@ well known group with different naming in local systems and domains.
Outside of domains the group is named 'None' (`Kein' in German, `Aucun'
in French, etc.), in domains it is named 'Domain Users'. Unfortunately,
the group `None' is never shown in the user admin tool outside of domains!
This is very confusing but it seems that this has no negativ influences.</para>
This is very confusing but this seems to have no negative consequences.</para>
<para>To work correctly the ntsec patch depends on reasoned files
<para>To work correctly the ntsec patch depends on the files
<filename>/etc/passwd/</filename> and <filename>/etc/group</filename>.
In cygwin release 1.0 the names and the IDs must correspond to the
appropriate NT IDs! The IDs used in cygwin are the RID of the NT SID, as
@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ have to change the primary group by hand if `None' as primary group is
not what you want (and I'm sure, it's not what you want!)</para>
<para>Look at the following examples, which were parts of my files before
storing SIDs in /etc/passwd and /etc/group has been introduced (See next
storing SIDs in /etc/passwd and /etc/group had been introduced (See next
chapter for details). With the exception of my personal user entry, all
entries are well known entries.</para>
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</screen>
</example>
<para>As you can see, I've changed my primary group membership from 513 (None)
to 547 (powerusers). So all file I created inside of Cygwin were now owned
<para>As you can see, I changed my primary group membership from 513 (None)
to 547 (powerusers). So all files I created inside of Cygwin were now owned
by the powerusers group instead of None. This is the way I liked it.</para>
<para>Groups may be mentioned in the passwd file, too. This has two
advantages:</para>
<itemizedlist spacing="compact">
<listitem><para>Because NT assigns them to files as owners, a
<command>ls -l</command> is often better readable.</para></listitem>
<command>ls -l</command> is often more readable.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Moreover it's possible to assigned them to files as
owners with cygwin's <command>chown</command>.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
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"Increase quotas"
</screen>
<para>Note that administrators do not have all that user rights set by default.</para>
<para>Note that administrators do not have all these user rights set
by default.</para>
<para>Two new Cygwin calls are introduced to support porting
<command>setuid</command> applications with a minimum of effort. You only
have to care to give Cygwin the right access token and then you can call
give Cygwin the right access token and then you can call
<command>seteuid</command> or <command>setuid</command> as usual in POSIX
applications. The call to <command>sexec</command> is not needed
anymore. Porting a <command>setuid</command> application is illustrated by