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 Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 15:21:05 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin Subject: Re: Can't kill other users processes Message-ID: <20010806152105.Z23782@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin References: <1119478549.20010806125638@logos-m.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from prentis@aol.net on Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 07:13:43AM -0400 On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 07:13:43AM -0400, Prentis Brooks wrote: > On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, egor duda wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > Monday, 06 August, 2001 HRebs@heyde.de HRebs@heyde.de 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. > > hrmmm. except on Unix the root user can kill anything, this is a good point. > And, I am able to kill other user's pids, as long as I am root, haven't tested > domain admin, but local root (Administrator) can nuke other pids. > > > I have my CYGWIN var setup with "binmode ntsec tty" ^^^^^ which is required to be able to kill other users' processes. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/