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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