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From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: equivalent to su or sudo?
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 18:55:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87efewu9xn.fsf@Rainer.invalid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180817100101.GB24845@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> (Ulli Horlacher's	message of "Fri, 17 Aug 2018 12:01:01 +0200")

Ulli Horlacher writes:
> I need to run some scripts with full administrator rights (for chown,
> chmod, setfacl).

Whatever runs these scripts must already have aquired administrative
rights.

> Is there a cygwin equivalent to su or sudo?

No, you can only start out with administrative rights and then drop them
when no longer needed (cygdrop --help).


Regards,
Achim.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-08-17 18:26 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
2018-08-17 18:55 ` Achim Gratz [this message]
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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