Ulli Horlacher wrote: > I need to run some scripts with full administrator rights (for chown, > chmod, setfacl). > Is there a cygwin equivalent to su or sudo? >
I use the following shell script to start a command as Administrator. I mainly just use it to start mintty. #!/bin/bash cmd="$(cygpath -da "$1")"; shift if [ $# -gt 0 ]; then powershell Start-Process "$cmd" -ArgumentList \""$@"\" -Verb RunAs -WindowStyle Hidden else powershell Start-Process "$cmd" -Verb RunAs -WindowStyle Hidden fi -- 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