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From:	"Christopher Dale Campbell" <DaleCampbell AT revolutionist DOT com>
To:	"Cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	Small alternative to su
Date:	Fri, 6 Jul 2001 05:26:16 -0400
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If you need to run programs (in cygwin) under a different user, but don't
want to log out, here's a simple thing that I use.  Create a shortcut to
"%SystemRoot%\system32\cmd.exe".  Then right click on the shortcut, select
Properties, and check the box 'Run as different user.'  Now when you click
that shortcut a dialog will pop up asking which user you'd like to run it
as.  When the DOS CLI opens up, just \cygwin\cygwin.bat (or where ever you
have it located) to run the cygwin batch file.  This works on most other
shortcuts, too.  However, the 'Run as different user' box is greyed out on
the cygwin shortcut.  Probably because it's a shortcut to a batch file (?).
Hope this helps.  Sure does beat logging in and out all the time.

And obviously, this is refering to NT and 2000 boxes (I'm using 2000).

Christopher Dale Campbell
DaleCampbell(at)revolutionist(dot)com
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