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Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 11:30:18 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Can't change password
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In-Reply-To: <NDBBLCBMICAILIHOEMKCIENAEOAA.mslinn@mslinn.com>; from mslinn@mslinn.com on Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 02:21:51AM -0700

On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 02:21:51AM -0700, Mike Slinn wrote:
> I want to log in as another user.  Apparently 'login' is only for inetd's
> use.
> 
> su and sudo aren't available - is Cygwin only a partial *nix workalike?
> 
> passwd doesn't complain when I try to change another user's password, but
> how can I log in as them?  I always get a message telling me the password is
> incorrect.  I try specifying the NT password, but that doesn't work either.

Sigh.  For some reason I'm pretty sure the answer to your question
is already in the mailing list archive.  And I answered to that
question already multiple times...

Corinna

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