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Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 12:32:03 +0100
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Subject: mintty vs runas (was: Re: CYGWIN=tty round 2)
From: Andy Koppe <andy.koppe@gmail.com>
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On 23 May 2011 22:24, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> I want to flag that this:
>
> /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/runas.exe /user:pippo 'C:\cygwin-2\bin\bash
> --login -i'
>
> works in a dos-like shell (Cygwin.bat) but not in mintty.

That's yet another case of a non-Cygwin program expecting to talk to a
Windows console rather than the pipes underlying Cygwin's pseudo
terminal device implementation. Even runas's help output doesn't work
in mintty, which suggests that it's using console-specific functions
for all its I/O.

> Is there some trick to do the job also in mintty?

Not within it, but you could invoke mintty itself as administrator
with right-click->Run As or by changing its shortcut to invoke it
through runas.

Andy

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