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From: Timothy Madden <terminatorul AT gmail DOT com>
Subject: Re: Elevated prompt under ssh on Windows 7
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:13:08 +0200
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On 18.01.2012 16:16, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jan 18 07:58, Ryan Johnson wrote:
>> On 18/01/2012 7:12 AM, Timothy Madden wrote:
>>> Is there a way to get the remote shell not to run elevated under
>>> sshd, even if the user could otherwise run programs elevated in
>>> the native Windows OS ?
>> I suspect you could set up ssh to use a "shell" which drops the
>> user's privilege level and then invokes the real shell. I don't know
>> the magic incantation off-hand, tho.
>
> There's a cygdrop tool in the cygutils package which allows to start
> another process under a restricted token.  See `cygdrop --help'.

I think cygdrop will do what I need with the proper configuration.
Nice tool.

Thank you,
Timothy Madden


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