X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Joe Smith" Subject: Re: 'su' no longer working? Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 23:39:07 -0500 Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 > 'su' used to be an executable that worked correctly from a SYSTEM-owned > shell, but now it's a shell script that simply prints a "not supported" > message. Is it possible to resurrect the old "su" executable (that > perhaps prints the same message if run from a non-SYSTEM account)? I know. It has been that way for many months (at least on my system). I'm surprised you just now noticed it. It is a bit stupid, as su worked if run under a system account, or if run under a user account with the proper priveleges. (Someplace in this mailing list are the instructions). (I know, I gave my main account those once. That let me do 'su SYSTEM' to get a system owned shell. :) ) -- 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/