sudo and runas

[Randall R Schulz]

Jon,

How about describing the symptoms?

I tried this:

% runas /user:Administrator 'D:\cygwin\bin\vim.exe'
Enter password for Administrator:
Attempting to start "D:\cygwin\bin\vim.exe" as user "Administrator"...

There was a rather long pause between the "Attempting ..." message and 
the Vim window opening, but it did work. So did the "notepad" example 
given in the help output from "runas /help".

Randall Schulz


At 12:25 2003-03-03, jon ewing wrote:

>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?
>
>thanks,
>
>jon.


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