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From: "jon ewing" <jon AT mediasurface DOT com>
To: "'Chris January'" <chris AT atomice DOT net>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: sudo and runas
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 09:12:06 -0000
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris January [mailto:chris AT atomice DOT net] 
> Sent: 05 March 2003 23:34
> To: jon ewing; cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: RE: sudo and runas
> 
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Under XP (and maybe other Windows?) there's a command, runas, which 
> > when used from cmd.exe or the Run dialog, can run applications as 
> > another
> > user:
> > 
> > C:\Cygwin>runas /user:Administrator C:\Cygwin\setup.exe
> > Enter the password for Administrator:
> > 
> > allows me to run Cygwin's setup as Administrator when 
> logged in as any 
> > user.
> > 
> > I was thinking of writing a sudo-type script using runas, 
> but for some 
> > reason can't get it to work at all under Cygwin - I tried 
> running it 
> > from Bash, cygstart-ing it, cmd.exe /C -ing it, but none of 
> these seem 
> > to work.
> > 
> > Anyone else tried doing this?
> 
> Is this any use?
> 
> http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ccj00/twiki/bin/view/Cygwin/CygwinSu
>
> Chris

jon AT shuttle (.../jon/tmp) % su root
Password:
su: cannot run /bin/bash: Permission denied

(I've renamed 'Administrator' as 'root' in /etc/passwd)

jon AT shuttle (/home/jon) % su dba
Password:
su: cannot set user id: Permission denied

('dba' is another user under windows, exclusively for running
PostgreSQL)


I'm beginning to wonder if my Cygwin installation is cursed...

jon.



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