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Re: admin privileges when logging in by ssh?
- From: Andrew Schulman <schulman dot andrew at epa dot gov>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 17:53:45 -0400
- Subject: Re: admin privileges when logging in by ssh?
- References: <rg0q679hpajl00ujv34jtmavsanhpb6n2t@4ax.com>
> When a user with administrative privileges logs in to sshd, it seems that the user is only granted
> standard user privileges for that session. Is there a way around that? How can I get the admin
> privileges for that session?
Nevermind. I found the answer from Corinna way back in 2004:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-09/msg00087.html. "The bottom line is, if you need all the user's
access rights use password authentication. If that doesn't help, you're out of luck."
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