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Difference between login and runas?
- From: pmarek at users dot sourceforge dot net
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2003 08:52:27 +0200
- Subject: Difference between login and runas?
- Reply-to: pmarek at users dot sourceforge dot net
Hello everybody,
I'm using cygwin 1.3.22 and need some help.
I'm trying to change the user (coming from the localsystem account) and tried
several ways.
- the "runas" utility (windows xp) does prompt me for a password. redirection
via eg. "echo password| runas /user:guest cmd.exe" shows that runas gets the
password, but tells always that it is wrong. (yes I know, that echo sends the
spaces between the last character and | - that's why I have none). I even
tried using a 'perl -e "print 'password'" | runas ...' - but that didn't work
either.
- su (cygwin version) doesn't work - has not been rewritten for windows
authentication.
- su (utility from microsoft, IIRC resourcekit or similar) works, but needs
the password.
- login works beautifully, I do not even need the password. But: there seems
to be a difference between login and su(ms-version) or runas.
Trying to run the microsoft office setup program shows problems with login,
which are not there with runas or su.
I checked that
- the correct registry hive was available as HKEY_CURRENT_USER,
- the user and group memberships were correctly set,
- I even purged the environment and "imported" (via a set > file.bat,
text-editing, and "call"ing this file.bat) an "original" from this user.
But there is still some difference, which I don't find.
Can somebody help me please?? Any ideas welcome.
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