Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Chris January" To: "jon ewing" , Subject: RE: sudo and runas Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 23:33:39 -0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 In-Reply-To: <000101c2e1c3$19ad5f20$152ca8c0@int.mediasurface.com> Importance: Normal > Hello, > > Under XP (and maybe other Windows?) there's a command, runas, which when > used from cmd.exe or the Run dialog, can run applications as another > user: > > C:\Cygwin>runas /user:Administrator C:\Cygwin\setup.exe > Enter the password for Administrator: > > allows me to run Cygwin's setup as Administrator when logged in as any > user. > > I was thinking of writing a sudo-type script using runas, but for some > reason can't get it to work at all under Cygwin - I tried running it > from Bash, cygstart-ing it, cmd.exe /C -ing it, but none of these seem > to work. > > Anyone else tried doing this? Is this any use? http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ccj00/twiki/bin/view/Cygwin/CygwinSu Chris -- 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/