X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew Schulman Subject: Re: [1.7] su (goldstar) Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:31:38 -0500 Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <31b7d2790911191346g53aafad3w8a4196fc2cc0a859@mail.gmail.com> <20091119215258.GB14033@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archive: encrypt X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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. Awarded. http://cygwin.com/goldstars/#JD -- 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