X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,BOTNET X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-id: <4B7BFD48.1040000@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:29:28 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Problems with SU under Windows XP vs. Windows Server References: <4B7BC319 DOT 7060703 AT gmx DOT net> In-reply-to: <4B7BC319.7060703@gmx.net> Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On 02/17/2010 05:21 AM, Frank wrote: > Hello, > > I am experiencing difficulties using the SU utility. > > What am trying to do is the following: > From a service (running under SYSTEM account) I want to run SU to get > a bash shell script executed as a specific user. > > - When I do this on my Windows XP 32bit box, all is fine and SU runs my > script as the user (I verified this by running "whoami" inside the script). > > - When I do the very same on my Windows 2003 Server 64bit box, then SU > hangs forever and I assume it is waiting for a password. > > So why is this different behaviour on the two boxes? 'SYSTEM' on W2K3 doesn't have the rights to switch user context. Try installing 'openssh' and running 'ssh-host-config' to set up the 'cygserver' user and use that instead. Or run 'ssh-user-config' and just use SSH for everything where ever you need it. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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