On 9/11/2011 9:07 PM, Andrew Schulman wrote:
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?
If what you want to do is to run a particular program with elevated
privileges (which I guess might include cmd.exe), then this web
page may be of assistance:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/11949-elevated-program-shortcut-without-uac-prompt-create.html
Other pages I found make the same recommendation.
Regards -- Eliot Moss
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