Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 17:43:40 +0800 From: "Winifred Sanchez" Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sent-Mail: off Reply-To: wasanchez AT lycos DOT com X-Mailer: MailCity Service Subject: su X-Sender-Ip: 203.176.70.65 Organization: Lycos Communications (http://comm.lycos.com:80) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Language: en Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit i have created a user "user1" that would be the owner of my db just so that the db server would not run under the administrator account. however, when i try to run 'su user1' so that i can activate the db server, i always get "su: connot set user id:Not owner". is there a way to change users in cygwin? how is it done? Get FREE Email/Voicemail with 15MB at Lycos Communications at http://comm.lycos.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com