> > 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."
Continuing my conversation with myself... The above is half right. It seems that I have to log in by password authentication, and then authenticate again to UAC, before I get my admin rights. At the console that's how it works: I log in as the backup user, ask for admin rights, authenticate again to UAC, and then, finally, can read or write any file on the system. In sshd, I log in by password authentication, but now I'm stuck because I don't know a command-line program to authenticate to UAC. Without that, I don't have any admin rights. So: Is there a command-line program that will allow me to authenticate to UAC? And do I have this right? Thanks, Andrew. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
