Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 11:41:33 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: login: no shell: /bin/bash: Permission denied Message-ID: <20020306114133.V13590@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20020306101433 DOT P13590 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:20:48AM +0100, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Hmm, so much for google. You adviced to use login before, > > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-03/msg00337.html > > have things changed since then? No. Did you read that article carefully? I've wrote about special user rights needed... > > See /usr/doc/Cygwin/login.README. > > Under NT/2K/XP, login(1) is _not_ supposed to work on the command line > to change user context! Though you're able to tweak user permissions > to get login(1) working that way, that's NOT officially supported. > > Ok, so how *do* you change user context? Either start an sshd service or start inetd and allow telnet or rsh or rlogin. Then you can easily change user context by ssh'ing, telnet'ing, rsh'ing or rlogin'ing into your box under the other account. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/