X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:52:58 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [1.7] su (goldstar) Message-ID: <20091119215258.GB14033@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <31b7d2790911191346g53aafad3w8a4196fc2cc0a859@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <31b7d2790911191346g53aafad3w8a4196fc2cc0a859@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 03:46:14PM -0600, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: >On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:15 PM, <> wrote: >> Is su supposed to work? ?When I try from an unprivileged account >> I get: > >I did the work of visiting the cygwin home page to read the 1.7 FAQ >and user guide. > >Here you are told that it doesn't work. >http://cygwin.com/1.7/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.su > >Here you are told some other ways to do the thing you may want to do. >http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-setuid-overview > >Good luck. Hey, you know, this is goldstar worthy. You really reminded me of the right way to handle this type of question. Seriously. It's always best to provide more details than just "No". I forgot that. Thanks for (indirectly) reminding me. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple