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From: "Christopher Dale Campbell" <oshuma AT tampabay DOT rr DOT com>
To: "Cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Fw: Small alternative to su
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 06:08:26 -0400
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Thanks for clearing that up.  Is there another alternative for NT users?

Christopher Dale Campbell
DaleCampbell(at)revolutionist(dot)com
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- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrej Borsenkow" <Andrej DOT Borsenkow AT mow DOT siemens DOT ru>
To: "Christopher Dale Campbell" <DaleCampbell AT revolutionist DOT com>; "Cygwin"
<cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 5:59 AM
Subject: RE: Small alternative to su


>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
> > [mailto:cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com]On Behalf Of Christopher
> > Dale Campbell
> > Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 1:26 PM
> > To: Cygwin
> > Subject: Small alternative to su
> >
> >
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> > If you need to run programs (in cygwin) under a different user, but
don't
> > want to log out, here's a simple thing that I use.  Create a shortcut to
> > "%SystemRoot%\system32\cmd.exe".  Then right click on the shortcut,
select
> > Properties, and check the box 'Run as different user.'  Now when you
click
> > that shortcut a dialog will pop up asking which user you'd like to run
it
> > as.  When the DOS CLI opens up, just \cygwin\cygwin.bat (or where ever
you
> > have it located) to run the cygwin batch file.  This works on most other
> > shortcuts, too.  However, the 'Run as different user' box is greyed out
on
> > the cygwin shortcut.  Probably because it's a shortcut to a batch
> > file (?).
> > Hope this helps.  Sure does beat logging in and out all the time.
> >
> > And obviously, this is refering to NT and 2000 boxes (I'm using 2000).
> >
>
> this works on 2000 and above *only*. "Run as" does not exist on NT.
>
> -andrej
>
>
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