On Jan 18 14:12, Timothy Madden wrote: > Hello > > I use ssh to connect to my cygwin machine (running on Windows 7 SP1 > 64-bit) and I would like the remote shell not to run elevated (as it > runs by default if I start it on the remote machine directly), > except for the Administator user. > > That way I can get the Unix-like behavior in which other users need > to `su` first in order to perform administrative tasks.
No, that's not possible. If you start your ssh session non-elevated there's no way to call `su' and expect it to work due to the different way in which user context switches work in Windows compared to POSIX systems. The usual workaround to get a su-like behaviour is to call ssh localhost. If that again results in a non-elevated shell, you are out of luck. No admin user would be able to do any administrative task. If you want a non-privileged ssh access, use a non-admin user account. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
