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From:	"Jon Ewing" <jon DOT ewing AT mediasurface DOT com>
To:	"'Chris January'" <chris AT atomice DOT net>
Cc:	"'Cygwin AT Cygwin DOT Com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	RE: sudo and runas
Date:	Mon, 10 Mar 2003 09:28:47 -0000
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> > > Is this any use?
> > >
> > > http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ccj00/twiki/bin/view/Cygwin/CygwinSu
> > >
> > > Chris
> >
> > jon AT shuttle (.../jon/tmp) % su root
> > Password:
> > su: cannot run /bin/bash: Permission denied
>
> Make sure /bin/bash is world executable.

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 596480 Nov 22 19:32 /bin/bash.exe

That's what I found so confusing... ;)

> > (I've renamed 'Administrator' as 'root' in /etc/passwd)
> >
> > jon AT shuttle (/home/jon) % su dba
> > Password:
> > su: cannot set user id: Permission denied
>
> Doesn't seem to be authenticating properly here. Are you sure 
> dba has network logon priveleges?

I think so... I can certainly

jon AT shuttle (~) % ssh -l dba localhost

and that works fine. Ditto for root, and then bash executes fine. I can
also log in as dba from the XP logon screen.

Thanks for your help - I'd really like to get this to work.

Jon.


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