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Fw: Small alternative to su
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- Subject: Fw: Small alternative to su
- From: "Christopher Dale Campbell" <oshuma at tampabay dot rr dot com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 06:08:26 -0400
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Thanks for clearing that up. Is there another alternative for NT users?
Christopher Dale Campbell
DaleCampbell(at)revolutionist(dot)com
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From: "Andrej Borsenkow" <Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru>
To: "Christopher Dale Campbell" <DaleCampbell@revolutionist.com>; "Cygwin"
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Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 5:59 AM
Subject: RE: Small alternative to su
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com
> > [mailto:cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Christopher
> > Dale Campbell
> > Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 1:26 PM
> > To: Cygwin
> > Subject: Small alternative to su
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> > If you need to run programs (in cygwin) under a different user, but
don't
> > want to log out, here's a simple thing that I use. Create a shortcut to
> > "%SystemRoot%\system32\cmd.exe". Then right click on the shortcut,
select
> > Properties, and check the box 'Run as different user.' Now when you
click
> > that shortcut a dialog will pop up asking which user you'd like to run
it
> > as. When the DOS CLI opens up, just \cygwin\cygwin.bat (or where ever
you
> > have it located) to run the cygwin batch file. This works on most other
> > shortcuts, too. However, the 'Run as different user' box is greyed out
on
> > the cygwin shortcut. Probably because it's a shortcut to a batch
> > file (?).
> > Hope this helps. Sure does beat logging in and out all the time.
> >
> > And obviously, this is refering to NT and 2000 boxes (I'm using 2000).
> >
>
> this works on 2000 and above *only*. "Run as" does not exist on NT.
>
> -andrej
>
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