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Re: Elevated prompt under ssh on Windows 7
On Jan 18 07:58, Ryan Johnson wrote:
> On 18/01/2012 7:12 AM, Timothy Madden wrote:
> >Is there a way to get the remote shell not to run elevated under
> >sshd, even if the user could otherwise run programs elevated in
> >the native Windows OS ?
> I suspect you could set up ssh to use a "shell" which drops the
> user's privilege level and then invokes the real shell. I don't know
> the magic incantation off-hand, tho.
There's a cygdrop tool in the cygutils package which allows to start
another process under a restricted token. See `cygdrop --help'.
Corinna
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