Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
On 8/15/2012 5:39 AM, Lord Laraby wrote:
Sorry if the questions are a bit too numerous. I wish I could just
siphon knowledge from Corinna's brain.:)
Then that would leave her with none!
I wouldn't need *all* of her knowledge of course. Just a small amount
would
On Aug 15 05:39, Lord Laraby wrote:
Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
Lord Laraby wrote:
I've scanned months of the mailing list archives for an answers and searched
until I've run out of ideas.
Have you taken a look through the Cygwin user's guide? In particular, I
suspect
the section on
On Aug 16 03:39, Lord Laraby wrote:
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
On 8/15/2012 5:39 AM, Lord Laraby wrote:
Sorry if the questions are a bit too numerous. I wish I could just
siphon knowledge from Corinna's brain.:)
Then that would leave her with none!
I wouldn't need *all* of her
Hi Corinna,
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Aug 16 03:39, Lord Laraby wrote:
I wouldn't need *all* of her knowledge of course. Just a small amount
would improve my understanding immensely.
Probably the key point that you're stumbling over is the fact that
when you're
On Aug 16 07:06, Lord Laraby wrote:
My, major emphasis is recognizing in the Cygwin dll
or startup code somewhere) that the user has full Administrator rights
and simply replacing his normal UID with 0 (or that of whomever root
seems to be by /etc/passwd). Internally (at cygwin.dll level)
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Aug 16 07:06, Lord Laraby wrote:
My, major emphasis is recognizing in the Cygwin dll
or startup code somewhere) that the user has full Administrator rights
and simply replacing his normal UID with 0 (or that of whomever root
seems to be by
On Aug 16 08:48, Lord Laraby wrote:
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Aug 16 07:06, Lord Laraby wrote:
My, major emphasis is recognizing in the Cygwin dll
or startup code somewhere) that the user has full Administrator rights
and simply replacing his normal UID with 0 (or
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 16 08:48, Lord Laraby wrote:
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Aug 16 07:06, Lord Laraby wrote:
See, here where I said I want to know if the user is in fact
elevated? I'm always a member of the Administrators Group (group
544) even
Lord Laraby lord.laraby at gmail.com writes:
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 16 08:48, Lord Laraby wrote:
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Aug 16 07:06, Lord Laraby wrote:
See, here where I said I want to know if the user is in fact
elevated? I'm always
On Aug 16 11:06, Lord Laraby wrote:
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 16 08:48, Lord Laraby wrote:
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Aug 16 07:06, Lord Laraby wrote:
See, here where I said I want to know if the user is in fact
elevated? I'm always a member of
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Aug 16 07:06, Lord Laraby wrote:
My, major emphasis is recognizing in the Cygwin dll
or startup code somewhere) that the user has full Administrator rights
and simply replacing his normal UID with 0 (or that of whomever root
seems to be by /etc/passwd). Internally
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Christian Franke
christian.fra...@t-online.de wrote:
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Aug 16 07:06, Lord Laraby wrote:
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What is it good for to have uid 0? You want to know if you have admin
rights, so why don't you simply check for the admin group in the
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 Christian Franke wrote:
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Aug 16 07:06, Lord Laraby wrote:
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What is it good for to have uid 0? You want to know if you have admin
rights, so why don't you simply check for the admin group in the
supplementary group list?
Here's what I do in
Could someone please delete that first copy of this message. Somehow,
it got through with a non-ubfuscated email address. I'm sorry.
LL
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Lord Laraby wrote:
I'll give that a go as a start. But, I would still like to see by
Cygwin uid shown as 0 when I am elevated. Because it's the same as the
windows equivalent of su.
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I think where you are confused is that cygwin's shell is
elevated all the time if you are running as
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 04:41:39PM -0400, Lord Laraby wrote:
Could someone please delete that first copy of this message. Somehow,
it got through with a non-ubfuscated email address. I'm sorry.
It doesn't work like that. No one wants a full time job cleaning up
after other people's email gaffes.
Lord Laraby wrote:
I've scanned months of the mailing list archives for an answers and searched
until I've run out of ideas.
Have you taken a look through the Cygwin user's guide? In particular, I suspect
the section on using Windows security in Cygwin will be relevant:
Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
Lord Laraby wrote:
I've scanned months of the mailing list archives for an answers and searched
until I've run out of ideas.
Have you taken a look through the Cygwin user's guide? In particular, I
suspect
the section on using Windows security in Cygwin will be
On 8/15/2012 5:39 AM, Lord Laraby wrote:
snip
Sorry if the questions are a bit too numerous. I wish I could just
siphon knowledge from Corinna's brain.:)
Then that would leave her with none!
Probably the key point that you're stumbling over is the fact that
when you're elevating your user's
Hi Folks,
I've scanned months of the mailing list archives for an answers and
searched until I've run out of ideas.
What I want to figure out is this. When I run bash --login -i in an
elevated command prompt, or I use elevate bash --login -i or any
other variation, I don't get any sign of being
Okay, some of this has been covered here:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-10/msg00370.html
I'm still reading more and doing more detective work.
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