Re: Question about UAC and bash/cygwin

[Lord Laraby <lord.laraby@gmail.com>]

Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> On 8/15/2012 5:39 AM, Lord Laraby wrote:
>
>> 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!

I wouldn't need *all* of her knowledge of course. Just a small amount
would improve my understanding immensely.

>
> 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.

I see that, of course. But it was always my assumption (a warranted
one I expect from some of the other posts I've read) that since
neither su, nor sudo, nor newgrp, login allows becoming root in cygwin
- and any administrator on a linux box can use those to become root.
So then, privilege elevation would be the closest analogy (for WIndows
7 etc.). After all, there is no *real* user named root on 99.9% of
boxes out there. An administrator gets the power to become root for a
time. Same with UAC, etc.

So0, you see where I'm coming from with my thinking, an Administrator
is adble to become Windows version of root. Same as on Linux. It's not
not really possible using cygwin.

> --
> Larry

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Regards,

LL

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