How do I figure out why LogonUserA is failing?
David Starks-Browning
starksb@ebi.ac.uk
Thu Nov 1 20:48:00 GMT 2001
On Tuesday 13 Nov 01, Corinna Vinschen writes:
> LogonUser/CreateProcessAsUser need special user rights. This rights
> are not given to user accounts, not even to admins. Only SYSTEM has
> that user rights by default. That's the reason that login only
> works when started from telnetd or rlogind, started from inetd which
> itself is running as service under SYSTEM account.
>
> login(1) is not intended for use on the command line under Cygwin.
>
> Shouldn't we create a FAQ for that?
There is already something about why there is no su, but it goes on to
say (indirectly) that login(1) may be a substitute. I will amend it to
include the information you provide above.
(I don't know about this stuff myself, so I can't put it in the FAQ
until I get concise, pithy emails like this one. Thanks Corinna!)
Cheers,
David
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