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 Message-ID: <11DA90DB57270946997CE1A2095E01648ACF2F@fenchurch.pdx.jbase.com> From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Malachi_De_=C6lfweald?= To: "'Peter Buckley'" , "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" Subject: RE: Problem with root account, login, X, KDE, etc -- none of the docu mentation seemed to work Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 12:03:55 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id PAA32373 Yes, I started with that. I have read many of these pages, and followed those instructions. Even setting up the U-PDX\malachid, I still can't even login as my current user. Looking at the man page, I am using: Cygwin Login 1.2 17 May 2000 -----Original Message----- From: Peter Buckley [mailto:peter DOT buckley AT cportcorp DOT com] Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 11:52 AM To: 'Malachi De Ælfweald'; 'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com' Subject: RE: Problem with root account, login, X, KDE, etc -- none of the docu mentation seemed to work http://www.google.com/search?q=login+site%3Acygwin.com On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 02:07:47PM -0700, Malachi De ?lfweald wrote: > Corinna, > > I realize you're busy -- so I will try to keep this short. > > I have been reading through your docs (inetutils readme, login readme, > website comments, forum comments, etc) and I just can't seem to get past > this issue. > I have tried everything I could find in any doc (yours or anothers), and it > just isn't working. > > >From within cygwin, I type "login". No matter what user (or domain\user) I > use, it always fails. I have followed the docs regarding the mkpasswd, the > mkgroup, environment variables.... > The reason I am trying to do this is because I installed XFree86 and KDE. I > am trying to run "kdm" (or even "xdm") and it just says that only root can > run it. But I can't log in as root (or even myself). > > Any possible help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thank you, > Malachi -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/