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RE: Small alternative to su
- To: "Christopher Dale Campbell" <DaleCampbell at revolutionist dot com>, "Cygwin" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: RE: Small alternative to su
- From: "Andrej Borsenkow" <Andrej dot Borsenkow at mow dot siemens dot ru>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 13:59:19 +0400
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> From: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com
> [mailto:cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Christopher
> Dale Campbell
> Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 1:26 PM
> To: Cygwin
> Subject: Small alternative to su
>
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> If you need to run programs (in cygwin) under a different user, but don't
> want to log out, here's a simple thing that I use. Create a shortcut to
> "%SystemRoot%\system32\cmd.exe". Then right click on the shortcut, select
> Properties, and check the box 'Run as different user.' Now when you click
> that shortcut a dialog will pop up asking which user you'd like to run it
> as. When the DOS CLI opens up, just \cygwin\cygwin.bat (or where ever you
> have it located) to run the cygwin batch file. This works on most other
> shortcuts, too. However, the 'Run as different user' box is greyed out on
> the cygwin shortcut. Probably because it's a shortcut to a batch
> file (?).
> Hope this helps. Sure does beat logging in and out all the time.
>
> And obviously, this is refering to NT and 2000 boxes (I'm using 2000).
>
this works on 2000 and above *only*. "Run as" does not exist on NT.
-andrej
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