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 Message-ID: <3DF7AEB9.7020000@Salira.com> Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 13:31:37 -0800 From: Andrew DeFaria Organization: Salira Optical Networks User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, ru, zh MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Force bash to start as administrator References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Dec 2002 21:33:11.0718 (UTC) FILETIME=[E7C31460:01C2A15C] Please don't email me directly - keep it on the list! Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > Andrew, > > The cygwin login has nothing to do with it. I was not referring to the > fact that you don't need a password (which, by the way, is stored by > windows, and not in the passwd file). Try replacing "login" by "bash", > and type "whoami" when the shell comes up. Interesting! Insecure! > Igor > P.S. I don't know what Runas is, sorry. In a Windows window (since rxvt messes up with ptys in this case) try runas /? -- 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/