On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 10:06:25AM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: > At 09:59 AM 11/13/2001, Mark Paulus wrote: > >So, > > > >If I understand this little diddy, one shouldn't just up and do a > >"login root"? If that is the case, then what does one do to "become" > >another user? I have gotten it to work by telnetting back to my machine > >and logging in as root that way, but that is rather "klunky", in my opinion.
You're right... from a POSIX system point of view. However, we're on a Windows system. NT has a completely different way of handling security issues. Cygwin is just a user space DLL on top of Win32 and (sometimes) native NT API. You know the `Run as user' functionality on W2K/XP? It's done the same "klunky" way as if you use Cygwins' telnet/rlogin/ssh to change user context. It's using a service process running under SYSTEM account. Surprise, surprise... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
