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From: David Rothenberger <daveroth@acm.org>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: equivalent to su or sudo?
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2018 03:50:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <94a4da29-e383-11ec-f2cc-ced6afaf1ae2@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180817100101.GB24845@rus.uni-stuttgart.de>

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

I use the following shell script to start a command as Administrator. I mainly just use it to start mintty.

#!/bin/bash
cmd="$(cygpath -da "$1")"; shift
if [ $# -gt 0 ]; then
  powershell Start-Process "$cmd" -ArgumentList \""$@"\" -Verb RunAs -WindowStyle Hidden
else
  powershell Start-Process "$cmd" -Verb RunAs -WindowStyle Hidden
fi

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-08-17 20:36 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
2018-08-18  3:50 ` David Rothenberger [this message]
2018-08-18 14:28   ` cyg Simple
2018-09-30 14:40 ` Erik Soderquist

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