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Re: Privilege(s) needed to run top command
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: Achim Gratz <Stromeko at nexgo dot de>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 03:17:08 +0300
- Subject: Re: Privilege(s) needed to run top command
- References: <1552323028120-0.post@n5.nabble.com> <87r2bd4003.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <20190311212845.GE3785@calimero.vinschen.de> <87ef7d3x9b.fsf@Rainer.invalid>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Greetings, Achim Gratz!
> Corinna Vinschen writes:
>> (*) That doesn't mean it's not possible. In theory all Cygwin
>> processes could be opened to allow everyone
>> PROCESS_QUERY_LIMITED_INFORMATION access, which would at least
>> fill most of /proc/<PID>/stat for foreign processes.
>> However, we never did that, so it can't have worked yet.
> Could we make it work under the condition that cygserver is running?
cygserver is not necessarily running with localsystem privileges, though, if
I'm not mistaken.
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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Tuesday, March 12, 2019 3:16:37
Sorry for my terrible english...
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