Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/01/05/17:38:08
Hi,
'su' used to be an executable that worked correctly from a SYSTEM-owned
shell, but now it's a shell script that simply prints a "not supported"
message. Is it possible to resurrect the old "su" executable (that
perhaps prints the same message if run from a non-SYSTEM account)?
This was the only convenient command-line way I knew to test the behavior
of passwordless user switching from a SYSTEM shell... I would also be
happy with alternative means for doing that.
Thanks,
Igor
P.S. Eric, sorry for the late notice -- when you announced that you made
'su' print out that message, i assumed this was the old executable that
tested the context and printed the message...
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