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Subject: | RE: incorrect password, or insufficient privileges |
Date: | Tue, 27 Jun 2006 17:28:14 -0400 |
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McGraw, Robert P. wrote: > I have installed the latest cygwin and under my account it seem to > work fine. I can open the cygwin window and run the unix commands. > > The account that I installed under is user = xxxyyy. > > When I start the cygwin.bat file it works fine and I go to my home > directory /home/xxxyyy > > I can "su xxxyyy" without any problems. Shows that su works. > > If I try to just "su" I get > > "su: incorrect password, or insufficient privileges to change user " > > I have search google and several other sites to try and fine what is > going on. > > Any ideas. > > Robert > _____________________________________________________________________ > Robert P. McGraw, Jr. > Manager, Computer System EMAIL: rmcgraw AT purdue DOT edu > Purdue University ROOM: MATH-807 > Department of Mathematics PHONE: (765) 494-6055 > 150 N. University Street FAX: (419) 821-0540 > West Lafayette, IN 47907-2067 http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.su -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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