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Date: | Wed, 15 Aug 2012 23:38:04 -0400 |
From: | "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com> |
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On 8/15/2012 5:39 AM, Lord Laraby wrote: <snip> > Sorry if the questions are a bit too numerous. I wish I could just > siphon knowledge from Corinna's brain.:) Then that would leave her with none! Probably the key point that you're stumbling over is the fact that when you're elevating your user's privileges, you're not changing from that user to 'root' but rather just enabling privileges the user is allowed to use. 'whoami' will not change. This is a difference between Windows and Unix/Linux security models. -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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