From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Question about UAC and bash/cygwin
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 04:05:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <502C6B1C.5030900@cygwin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG9p0OQsu08mOqGC4NkAvKE_GbjvBJk675XR6TdU5+urbNsEuQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 8/15/2012 5:39 AM, Lord Laraby wrote:
<snip>
> Sorry if the questions are a bit too numerous. I wish I could just
> siphon knowledge from Corinna's brain.:)
Then that would leave her with none!
Probably the key point that you're stumbling over is the fact that
when you're elevating your user's privileges, you're not changing
from that user to 'root' but rather just enabling privileges the user
is allowed to use. 'whoami' will not change. This is a difference
between Windows and Unix/Linux security models.
--
Larry
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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-16 3:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-15 2:09 Lord Laraby
2012-08-15 4:10 ` Lord Laraby
2012-08-15 9:35 ` Adam Dinwoodie
2012-08-15 10:56 ` Lord Laraby
2012-08-16 4:05 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin) [this message]
2012-08-16 8:51 ` Lord Laraby
2012-08-16 10:31 ` Corinna Vinschen
2012-08-16 12:02 ` Lord Laraby
2012-08-16 12:27 ` Corinna Vinschen
2012-08-16 14:04 ` Lord Laraby
2012-08-16 16:03 ` Corinna Vinschen
2012-08-16 16:03 ` Lord Laraby
2012-08-16 18:23 ` Kurt Franke
2012-08-16 18:32 ` Corinna Vinschen
2012-08-16 19:26 ` Christian Franke
2012-08-16 19:52 ` Lord Laraby
2012-08-16 21:31 ` Lord Laraby
2012-08-16 22:16 ` Lord Laraby
2012-08-17 1:57 ` Christopher Faylor
2012-08-16 22:46 ` Linda Walsh
2012-08-16 9:20 ` Corinna Vinschen
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