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Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 11:34:02 -0700
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Problems listing tasks under cygwin.
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Dave Korn wrote:

>   Actually, SYSTEM has higher privileges in general than root.  It may well
> be impossible to kill some tasks belonging to system because they may not
> allow full access even to users with admin rights.  The error message may be
> misleading, and maybe it should be saying "Access denied".

FYI, you can kill SYSTEM processes as a regular user administrator
account using Process Explorer from sysinternals.com.  I haven't checked
but I believe the program installs a helper driver that runs as SYSTEM
to perform these actions as proxy for the user.  A lot of the
sysinternals tools do something like that it seems.

Brian

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