runas, su, sudo

[DePriest, Jason R.]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Lukas Haase <> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there any (working) way to change privileges in cygwin?
>
> Regards,
> Luke
>
>

Try this: http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.su

It tells you to use ssh@localhost but has a link to some mailing list
archives that explain why su / sudo can't work properly.

-Jason

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