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Re: equivalent to su or sudo?
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: Ulli Horlacher <framstag at rus dot uni-stuttgart dot de>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 18:21:49 +0300
- Subject: Re: equivalent to su or sudo?
- References: <20180817100101.GB24845@rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Greetings, Ulli Horlacher!
> I need to run some scripts with full administrator rights (for chown,
> chmod, setfacl).
> Is there a cygwin equivalent to su or sudo?
If by that you mean "run privileged program inside a user terminal", no.
This is inherently insecure and not supported under Windows.
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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Friday, August 17, 2018 18:21:00
Sorry for my terrible english...
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