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Re: Problems listing tasks under cygwin.
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 11:34:02 -0700
- Subject: Re: Problems listing tasks under cygwin.
- Organization: My own little world...
- References: <NUTMEGSzKBWqUh89xIM00000163@NUTMEG.CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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
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