Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20020425104550.02c45e30@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 10:47:12 -0400 To: "Daniel Adams" , cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: Login as a different user? In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 12:26 AM 4/25/2002, Daniel Adams wrote: >I haven't been around watching the mailing list long enough, but are there >plans in the works to make the login command work properly? When I say >properly, I mean in the way that it works under a regular Unix system. If >the person who is in charge of that aspect of cygwin wants I will be glad to >help with some debugging stuff. But thanks for the suggestion for the time >being I think it will help. Check the email archives on this subject if you're interested. There's no planned work in this area due to Windows restrictions and availability of alternatives (i.e. ssh is the best option). Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- 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/