Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com To: egor duda Subject: Re: Can't kill other users processes References: <992CBEE6DB33D51195E900005A99327C050E6B@hddsrv3.heyde-dd.de> <1119478549.20010806125638@logos-m.ru> From: Andrew Markebo Date: 06 Aug 2001 11:12:32 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1119478549.20010806125638@logos-m.ru> Message-ID: Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii / egor duda wrote: | [...] | Hhd> Even if I am loged on as root (administrator) I can't kill other | Hhd> users processes. | Hhd> Kill always complains: Not owner! | | this is by design. if some user was able to kill other user's | processes it would be serious breach in security. Unices don't allow | this too. Yes they do, as long as you do it as root. Meanwhile, hmm can you kill the process from the TaskManager as Administrator?? I know there are problems killing some processes/services as administrator.. Or is it simply the 'su' problem between Cygwin and NT? You can't get 101% Administrator rights from Cygwin. /Andy -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/