On 23 May 2011 22:24, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > I want to flag that this: > > /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/runas.exe /user:pippo 'C:\cygwin-2\bin\bash > --login -i' > > works in a dos-like shell (Cygwin.bat) but not in mintty.
That's yet another case of a non-Cygwin program expecting to talk to a Windows console rather than the pipes underlying Cygwin's pseudo terminal device implementation. Even runas's help output doesn't work in mintty, which suggests that it's using console-specific functions for all its I/O. > Is there some trick to do the job also in mintty? Not within it, but you could invoke mintty itself as administrator with right-click->Run As or by changing its shortcut to invoke it through runas. Andy -- 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
