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Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 10:47:24 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: effective user id
Message-ID: <20010212104724.H2107@cygbert.vinschen.de>
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In-Reply-To: <u7l2zxee6.fsf@multiline.com.au>; from guyw@multiline.com.au on Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 02:04:17PM +0800

On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 02:04:17PM +0800, Guy Worthington wrote:
> If I'm logged in as an administrators member and then in a console type:
> 
> su guest
> 
> I get the error
> 
> su: Cannot set group id: Invalid argument
> 
> I'm trying to switch to another effective user ID with no password in
> the same way as has been exploited for anonymous ftp
> (as described in the article: inetutils-1.3.2.README).
> 
> How do I switch my effective user ID to another user without a password.

http://cygwin.com/docs.html

Corinna

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