[distcc] distccd on cygwin: CRITICAL! still have root privileges after trying to discard them

[Ivarsson, Magnus]

Hi, I am new to distcc but I must say that it looks really promising.

Eager to get started I tried to start the distccd on a few machines
running windows xp and windows 7 and cygwin.
On my own laptop it went well, but on the other machines (one xp and one
win7) the result was this:

  bash-3.2# distccd --daemon --allow 1.2.3.4/24
  distccd[4596] (dcc_preferred_user) Warning: no such user as "distcc"
  distccd[4596] (dcc_discard_root) ERROR: setgid(65534) failed: Invalid
argument
  distccd[4596] (dcc_exit) exit: code 112; self: 0.000000 user 0.000000
sys; children: 0.000000 user 0.000000 sys


Trying to set the user manually gets me a tiny step forward:

  bash-3.2# distccd --daemon --allow 1.2.3.4/24 --user apa
  distccd[4996] (dcc_discard_root) CRITICAL! still have root privileges
after trying to discard them!
  distccd[4996] (dcc_exit) exit: code 112; self: 0.000000 user 0.000000
sys; children: 0.000000 user 0.000000 sys


The version information:

  bash-3.2# distccd --version
  distccd 2.18.3 i686-pc-cygwin (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632)
    built Apr 25 2005 11:10:45
  Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004 by Martin Pool.
  Includes miniLZO (C) 1996-2002 by Markus Franz Xaver Johannes
Oberhumer.



I have tried to search for solutions on the web but to no avail 
  - any clues would be greatly appreciated!

/Magnus