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 From: "Chris January" To: "jon ewing" Cc: "Cygwin@Cygwin.Com" Subject: RE: sudo and runas Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 00:05:27 -0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 In-Reply-To: <000f01c2e489$a54043e0$152ca8c0@int.mediasurface.com> Importance: Normal > > > Hello, > > > > > > Under XP (and maybe other Windows?) there's a command, runas, which > > > when used from cmd.exe or the Run dialog, can run applications as > > > another > > > user: > > > > > > C:\Cygwin>runas /user:Administrator C:\Cygwin\setup.exe > > > Enter the password for Administrator: > > > > > > allows me to run Cygwin's setup as Administrator when > > logged in as any > > > user. > > > > > > I was thinking of writing a sudo-type script using runas, > > but for some > > > reason can't get it to work at all under Cygwin - I tried > > running it > > > from Bash, cygstart-ing it, cmd.exe /C -ing it, but none of > > these seem > > > to work. > > > > > > Anyone else tried doing this? > > > > Is this any use? > > > > http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ccj00/twiki/bin/view/Cygwin/CygwinSu > > > > Chris > > jon@shuttle (.../jon/tmp) % su root > Password: > su: cannot run /bin/bash: Permission denied Make sure /bin/bash is world executable. > (I've renamed 'Administrator' as 'root' in /etc/passwd) > > jon@shuttle (/home/jon) % su dba > Password: > su: cannot set user id: Permission denied Doesn't seem to be authenticating properly here. Are you sure dba has network logon priveleges? 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/