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: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 12:07:38 +0100 Message-ID: <3180-Tue18Sep2001120738+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> X-Mailer: emacs 20.7.1 (via feedmail 9-beta-7 I); VM 6.92 under Emacs 20.7.1 From: David Starks-Browning MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Mike Slinn CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Can't change password In-Reply-To: <20010918113018.P22900@cygbert.vinschen.de> References: <20010918113018.P22900@cygbert.vinschen.de> On Tuesday 18 Sep 01, Corinna Vinschen writes: > On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 02:21:51AM -0700, Mike Slinn wrote: > > I want to log in as another user. Apparently 'login' is only for inetd's > > use. > > > > su and sudo aren't available - is Cygwin only a partial *nix workalike? > > > > passwd doesn't complain when I try to change another user's password, but > > how can I log in as them? I always get a message telling me the password is > > incorrect. I try specifying the NT password, but that doesn't work either. > > Sigh. For some reason I'm pretty sure the answer to your question > is already in the mailing list archive. And I answered to that > question already multiple times... Mike, there is a FAQ entry "Where is the `su' command?". If this is not adequate, let us know what's missing. I don't use this "feature" myself, so I can't write a better FAQ entry without more input. Regards, David (Cygwin FAQ maintainer) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/