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From: Andrew Schulman <schulman DOT andrew AT epa DOT gov>
Subject: Re: admin privileges when logging in by ssh?
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 17:53:45 -0400
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> When a user with administrative privileges logs in to sshd, it seems that the user is only granted
> standard user privileges for that session.  Is there a way around that?  How can I get the admin
> privileges for that session?

Nevermind.  I found the answer from Corinna way back in 2004:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-09/msg00087.html.  "The bottom line is, if you need all the user's
access rights use password authentication.  If that doesn't help, you're out of luck."


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