sudo and runas

Chris January chris@atomice.net
Thu Mar 6 00:23:00 GMT 2003


> 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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