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 Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.1.0.6.0.20040624110312.03313e78@pop.prospeed.net> X-Sender: Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 11:06:27 -0400 To: loren jan wilson , cygwin@cygwin.com From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: making a user (FAQ but can't find answer) In-Reply-To: <20040624150544.GA9574@solar.uchicago.edu> References: <20040624150544.GA9574@solar.uchicago.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 11:05 AM 6/24/2004, you wrote: >Dear cygwin community, > >I've tried everything I can think of to try to add a user to >cygwin, but haven't been able to use ssh, ftp, su, or login to >login as anybody except the user that Cygwin is running as. Sounds like you're not running your services as 'SYSTEM' but rather as the user you installed as. But you're a little vague on the details so I might be jumping to conclusions. If that's not the problem, please provide some details and the requested info from: >Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html A short, simple example of something you're trying which doesn't work for you with supporting files/data would be most helpful. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/