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Re: runas, su, sudo
- From: "DePriest, Jason R." <jrdepriest at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:39:48 -0500
- Subject: Re: runas, su, sudo
- References: <i1nk62$kii$1@dough.gmane.org>
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Lukas Haase <> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there any (working) way to change privileges in cygwin?
>
> Regards,
> Luke
>
>
Try this: http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.su
It tells you to use ssh@localhost but has a link to some mailing list
archives that explain why su / sudo can't work properly.
-Jason
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