From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Problems listing tasks under cygwin.
Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 18:49:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0405181438360.2073@slinky.cs.nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40AA571A.C2ACDB24@dessent.net>
On Tue, 18 May 2004, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Dave Korn wrote:
>
> > Actually, SYSTEM has higher privileges in general than root. It may
> > well be impossible to kill some tasks belonging to system because they
> > may not allow full access even to users with admin rights. The error
> > message may be misleading, and maybe it should be saying "Access
> > denied".
>
> FYI, you can kill SYSTEM processes as a regular user administrator
> account using Process Explorer from sysinternals.com. I haven't checked
> but I believe the program installs a helper driver that runs as SYSTEM
> to perform these actions as proxy for the user. A lot of the
> sysinternals tools do something like that it seems.
>
> Brian
...Which means that currently in Cygwin one should be able to kill a
SYSTEM-owned task from a SYSTEM-owned shell (using the "at /interactive"
trick), and that once "su via cygserver" is operational, one can simply do
"su SYSTEM kill PID"...
Igor
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-18 18:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-18 8:07 alejandro.sanchez
2004-05-18 16:58 ` Larry Hall
2004-05-18 17:03 ` Dave Korn
2004-05-18 18:40 ` Brian Dessent
2004-05-18 18:49 ` Igor Pechtchanski [this message]
2004-05-19 9:23 ` [OT] " Dave Korn
2004-05-19 9:29 ` Brian Dessent
2004-05-19 14:03 ` Brian Ford
2004-05-20 13:22 ` Dave Korn
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