X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew Schulman Subject: Re: admin privileges when logging in by ssh? Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:24:46 -0400 Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archive: encrypt X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 > When a user with administrative privileges logs in to sshd, it seems that the user is only granted > standard user privileges for that session. Is there a way around that? How can I get the admin > privileges for that session? Winding this up: Password authentication to sshd is all that's needed to be granted the account's admin privileges on login. I was mistaken about UAC: unlike at the console, when you log in by ssh, the account's admin privileges are granted at login, without needing any further authentication to UAC. Thanks very much Eliot and Karl, for your answers about UAC. Although it turns out that they're not needed in this case, they're likely to be useful some other time. Andrew. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple