Is there a 'su'-like command in Win2K?
Quick scenario: My whole family has logins on my machine, but my brother is the only who ever uses it. Now, he was logged in, surfing the web or something. I wanted to show him a video, or a picture or something, but he doesn't have permissions to get to my stuff.
Quick scenario:
My whole family has logins on my machine, but my brother is the only who ever uses it. Now, he was logged in, surfing the web or something. I wanted to show him a video, or a picture or something, but he doesn't have permissions to get to my stuff.
It would suck to log-off the 'Net, log me in, change permissions, log him back in, log back onto the 'Net, just to show him a video. In *nix, there is the 'su' command [switch user], which will allow you to gain the permissions of another system user, which would have solved my problem.
Is there such a command in Windows?
Thanks in advance,
-bZj
My whole family has logins on my machine, but my brother is the only who ever uses it. Now, he was logged in, surfing the web or something. I wanted to show him a video, or a picture or something, but he doesn't have permissions to get to my stuff.
It would suck to log-off the 'Net, log me in, change permissions, log him back in, log back onto the 'Net, just to show him a video. In *nix, there is the 'su' command [switch user], which will allow you to gain the permissions of another system user, which would have solved my problem.
Is there such a command in Windows?
Thanks in advance,
-bZj
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Down8, this doesn't give an answer to your question, it's only a tip if you don't know it already. If you are using a dialup device, you can logon a different user and not have to disconnect your net connection. To do this open regedit and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon, right click and select New -> String Value. Name it 'KeepRasConnections' (minus the ' '), hit enter and give it the value 1.
reboot for it to take effect. Hope this helps out
reboot for it to take effect. Hope this helps out
Quote:<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Ekstreme:
Down8, this doesn't give an answer to your question, it's only a tip if you don't know it already. If you are using a dialup device, you can logon a different user and not have to disconnect your net connection. To do this open regedit and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon, right click and select New -> String Value. Name it 'KeepRasConnections' (minus the ' '), hit enter and give it the value 1.
reboot for it to take effect. Hope this helps out </font>
yeah yeah yeah, but wouldn't logging off close the program that uses the connection?
Down8, this doesn't give an answer to your question, it's only a tip if you don't know it already. If you are using a dialup device, you can logon a different user and not have to disconnect your net connection. To do this open regedit and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon, right click and select New -> String Value. Name it 'KeepRasConnections' (minus the ' '), hit enter and give it the value 1.
reboot for it to take effect. Hope this helps out </font>
yeah yeah yeah, but wouldn't logging off close the program that uses the connection?
