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: <40AA571A.C2ACDB24@dessent.net> Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 11:34:02 -0700 From: Brian Dessent Organization: My own little world... MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Problems listing tasks under cygwin. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Dave Korn wrote: > Actually, SYSTEM has higher privileges in general than root. It may well > be impossible to kill some tasks belonging to system because they may not > allow full access even to users with admin rights. The error message may be > misleading, and maybe it should be saying "Access denied". FYI, you can kill SYSTEM processes as a regular user administrator account using Process Explorer from sysinternals.com. I haven't checked but I believe the program installs a helper driver that runs as SYSTEM to perform these actions as proxy for the user. A lot of the sysinternals tools do something like that it seems. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/