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From: "Chris January" <chris AT atomice DOT net>
To: "jon ewing" <jon AT mediasurface DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: sudo and runas
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 23:33:39 -0000
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> 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


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