RE: cygwin mentors? Was: bash and the suid bit

["Justin MacCarthy" <macarthy at iol dot ie>]

Hi Richard, a short answer pretty busy, hopes its enough to get you
started...

> Tell me about it, Justin!
> No, Nobody mentioned that!
> How does it work? Is it part of the OS or an add-on?

It's a Win2000 native service , look in services
Description : "Enables starting processes under alternate credentials"

Nearest thing to  sudo (ala Linux) I know of

> Also, can it be ported/made to work on NT?

Might need to use the  CreateProcessWithLogonW
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnwxp/html/appsec.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dllproc/pro
thred_2gl3.asp


> If it only works on W2000, it might not be good enough for my needs...
>

Only works on Win2000 AFAIK , although might in XP etc.

http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=KB;EN-US;Q294676&;

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/en/server/help/windows_security_runas.h
tm

Actually one of those articles mentions XP so.....

> Thanks for your reply,
> Richard
>

> --
> Richard Troy, Chief Scientist
> Science Tools Corporation
> rtroy@ScienceTools.com, 510-567-9957, http://ScienceTools.com/
>
> On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Justin MacCarthy wrote:
>
> > Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 15:28:25 +0100
> > From: Justin MacCarthy <macarthy@iol.ie>
> > To: Richard Troy <rtroy@sciencetools.com>
> > Subject: RE: cygwin mentors?  Was: bash and the suid bit
> >
> > I haven't followed this tread, but I had a quick look , did
> anyone mention
> > the RunAs service in WIn2000?
> >
> > Might solve your problem ???
> >
> > Justin
> >
>
>
>


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