From: corinna.vinschen@cityweb.de (Corinna Vinschen) Subject: Re: crond for CYGWIN32? 13 Oct 1998 00:04:50 -0700 Message-ID: <3621CC46.2A26A2EB.cygnus.gnu-win32@cityweb.de> References: <199810120023.CAA25847@igate.aubi.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "[SMTP:markus.doehr@aubi.de]" , gnu-win32@cygnus.com [SMTP:markus.doehr@aubi.de] wrote: > > >The worst problem, 'cause it's persistent: > >Under WinNT, you can't create a child process as another > >user, if you don't know the password, even if the parent > >process runs as Administrator or, in case of services, > >as LocalSystem. > In the NT 4.0 Ressource-Kit utils there's a Util called SU.EXE. You > can switch the user context like under Unix. You are right, there is a SU.EXE, BUT: You have to know the password, as Administrator, too... Also the SU-program can't undermine the C2-Security of the WindowsNT-Kernel. The problem remains the same :-[ Corinna - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".