equivalent to su or sudo?

Andrey Repin anrdaemon@yandex.ru
Fri Aug 17 17:15:00 GMT 2018


Greetings, Ulli Horlacher!

> I need to run some scripts with full administrator rights (for chown,
> chmod, setfacl).
> Is there a cygwin equivalent to su or sudo?

If by that you mean "run privileged program inside a user terminal", no.
This is inherently insecure and not supported under Windows.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Friday, August 17, 2018 18:21:00

Sorry for my terrible english...


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