Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 10:47:24 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: effective user id Message-ID: <20010212104724.H2107@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from guyw@multiline.com.au on Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 02:04:17PM +0800 On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 02:04:17PM +0800, Guy Worthington wrote: > If I'm logged in as an administrators member and then in a console type: > > su guest > > I get the error > > su: Cannot set group id: Invalid argument > > I'm trying to switch to another effective user ID with no password in > the same way as has been exploited for anonymous ftp > (as described in the article: inetutils-1.3.2.README). > > How do I switch my effective user ID to another user without a password. http://cygwin.com/docs.html Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple