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 X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 18:43:32 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Oodini cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: su command ? In-Reply-To: <3E079C19.6070808@free.fr> Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Oodini wrote: > Hello, > > It seems that the su command doesn't work, although it is in the > man/info pages. > Any clue ? 'su' is not implemented in cygwin (yet). The closest you can get now is setting up sshd and using 'ssh user@localhost'. There was some talk of one of the new packages having that functionality, but you'd have to read the mailing list archives to verify that. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Oh, boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a really *big* RAMdisk! -- /usr/games/fortune -- 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/