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Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 18:11:37 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: I can't find command su.exe
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In-Reply-To: <3B44DE76.7000505@Interwoven.com>; from sandman@Interwoven.com on Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 02:39:02PM -0700

On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 02:39:02PM -0700, Sandeep Tamhankar wrote:
>Hmm, I'm beginning to think my 1.3.2 didn't come with su after all.  I 
>was upgrading from 1.1.8 when I got 1.3.2.  When I do su --version, it 
>tells me "GNU sh-utils 1.16"...and the sh-utils package that came with 
>1.3.2 is v2.0-2...and doesn't contain an su executable.  Maybe it came 
>with b20 and I just held onto it when I upgraded from b20 to 1.1.8.
>
>Anyway, the other message about the e-mail archive message that 
>elaborates on "it works not as you expect it to do" basically says use 
>"login" instead of su.

Cygwin does not currently support su.  If you have a version of su in
your /bin directory, it came from an older version of sh-utils.  Newer
versions do not include it.

cgf

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