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: "Cygwin@Cygwin.Com" Subject: RE: sudo and runas Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 10:56:11 -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: <000d01c2e6e7$73f20570$3507000a@int.mediasurface.com> Importance: Normal > > > > Is this any use? > > > > > > > > http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ccj00/twiki/bin/view/Cygwin/CygwinSu > > > > > > > > Chris > > > > > > jon@shuttle (.../jon/tmp) % su root > > > Password: > > > su: cannot run /bin/bash: Permission denied > > > > Make sure /bin/bash is world executable. > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 596480 Nov 22 19:32 /bin/bash.exe > > That's what I found so confusing... ;) > > > > (I've renamed 'Administrator' as 'root' in /etc/passwd) > > > > > > jon@shuttle (/home/jon) % su dba > > > Password: > > > su: cannot set user id: Permission denied > > > > Doesn't seem to be authenticating properly here. Are you sure > > dba has network logon priveleges? > > I think so... I can certainly > > jon@shuttle (~) % ssh -l dba localhost > > and that works fine. Ditto for root, and then bash executes fine. I can > also log in as dba from the XP logon screen. > > Thanks for your help - I'd really like to get this to work. The su binary on my webpage seems to need more privileges than I remember. Try assigning yourself the "Replace a Process Level Token" right. I am working on a version that doesn't require these privileges. Maybe by using CreateProcessWithLogonW and then re-routing the console or something. 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/