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Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 14:40:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Problems listing tasks under cygwin.
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On Tue, 18 May 2004, Brian Dessent wrote:

> 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

...Which means that currently in Cygwin one should be able to kill a
SYSTEM-owned task from a SYSTEM-owned shell (using the "at /interactive"
trick), and that once "su via cygserver" is operational, one can simply do
"su SYSTEM kill PID"...
	Igor
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