Dave Korn wrote: > Actually, SYSTEM has higher privileges in general than root. It may well > be impossible to kill some tasks belonging to system because they may not > allow full access even to users with admin rights. The error message may be > misleading, and maybe it should be saying "Access denied".
FYI, you can kill SYSTEM processes as a regular user administrator account using Process Explorer from sysinternals.com. I haven't checked but I believe the program installs a helper driver that runs as SYSTEM to perform these actions as proxy for the user. A lot of the sysinternals tools do something like that it seems. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
