X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :reply-to; q=dns; s=default; b=UZv0oZTrxGByv1qDGWZnOj6Y1zeRt0iZD lABxe8YHJ0Rm6I8Zn0aHW6lbCUuKgFCuC6DjC4LFUS6pm7ZVCtFdl5n0DACsmOwl 2Cm85TlGoMZ/BIOksuaDMZgUVVjz6/1GXfvJhw8M8nangViHJwZVrr9KozXYnxsg eWIegWpWEk= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :reply-to; s=default; bh=n16YpHhVgOUDNVIepRYOX7dEFgk=; b=k18CCX/ aOAZsRexKOXvgiddJ5biOiGV/LpCWeLQFPM6M1Bf8GUBTGGhit2UTk7lPwOvglNl vPrDwaHkAWhnUbCaMZd205tVQ4bta35N2DZt/R91na71BKmcHEndMZZ46Q7kValX yvaENhuM3CcsFoj+P20ZreOFODebtvRXQ9Lk= 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 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=Administrator, rights, Hx-spam-relays-external:ESMTPA X-HELO: resqmta-ch2-05v.sys.comcast.net Subject: Re: equivalent to su or sudo? To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20180817100101 DOT GB24845 AT rus DOT uni-stuttgart DOT de> From: David Rothenberger Message-ID: <94a4da29-e383-11ec-f2cc-ced6afaf1ae2@acm.org> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 13:33:57 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20180817100101.GB24845@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Ulli Horlacher wrote: > I need to run some scripts with full administrator rights (for chown, > chmod, setfacl). > Is there a cygwin equivalent to su or sudo? > I use the following shell script to start a command as Administrator. I mainly just use it to start mintty. #!/bin/bash cmd="$(cygpath -da "$1")"; shift if [ $# -gt 0 ]; then powershell Start-Process "$cmd" -ArgumentList \""$@"\" -Verb RunAs -WindowStyle Hidden else powershell Start-Process "$cmd" -Verb RunAs -WindowStyle Hidden fi -- 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