Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Christopher January To: Jason Tishler Subject: Re: Logging in as SYSTEM (was Re: Quick password question...) Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 16:32:43 +0100 References: <200209051437.50817.chris@atomice.net> <20020905150138.GA1240@tishler.net> In-Reply-To: <20020905150138.GA1240@tishler.net> Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <200209051632.43841.chris@atomice.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g85KxSJ31741 On Thursday 05 Sep 2002 4:01 pm, you wrote: > Chris, > > Did you mean to reply-all? > > On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 02:37:50PM +0100, Christopher January wrote: > > On Thursday 05 Sep 2002 1:58 pm, Jason Tishler wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 11:14:17AM +0200, Bjoern Kahl AG Resy wrote: > > > > I thought that is impossible ...) > > > > I have the source code to a program that does su. I'll try to make it > > into a Cygwin program one day. > > Don't you need a daemon (i.e., service) able to switch user context > (e.g., running under LocalSystem) to pull this off? IIRC you can give an account certain priveleges which means it can do this itself. There were two program I was thinking of. One just opens a shell as the SYSTEM user, the other logs on a user and runs a program as them (when given the correct password). Chris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/