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From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: equivalent to su or sudo?
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 17:15:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1157801968.20180817182149@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180817100101.GB24845@rus.uni-stuttgart.de>

Greetings, Ulli Horlacher!

> I need to run some scripts with full administrator rights (for chown,
> chmod, setfacl).
> Is there a cygwin equivalent to su or sudo?

If by that you mean "run privileged program inside a user terminal", no.
This is inherently insecure and not supported under Windows.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Friday, August 17, 2018 18:21:00

Sorry for my terrible english...


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-08-17 15:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-17 13:08 Ulli Horlacher
2018-08-17 13:36 ` john doe
2018-08-17 14:36   ` Ulli Horlacher
2018-08-17 17:15 ` Andrey Repin [this message]
2018-08-17 18:55 ` Achim Gratz
2018-08-18  3:50 ` David Rothenberger
2018-08-18 14:28   ` cyg Simple
2018-09-30 14:40 ` Erik Soderquist

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