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 Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 18:49:59 -0500 From: "Pierre A. Humblet" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: killing processes owned by others with kill.exe Message-ID: <20040308234959.GA260541@Worldnet> References: <038c01c4055e$5e167010$920aa8c0@adexainc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <038c01c4055e$5e167010$920aa8c0@adexainc.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 05:40:33PM -0500, Rob S.i.k.l.o.s wrote: > Hello, > > I've noticed that /bin/kill.exe is unable to kill processes that are run as > another user (e.g. SYSTEM) (even with -f). > > Is this intentional? Non privileged users can only kill their own processes. SYSTEM and members of the Administrators group can kill any Cygwin process. There was a bug at some point where Cygwin processes launched directly from Windows (e.g. cygrunsrv) could not be killed by Administrators, but that should be fixed by now, at least in snapshots. It was caused because of the Windows default permissions on processes. Pierre -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/