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From: "Daniel Adams" <danpadams AT infomagic DOT net>
Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin
Subject: Re: Login as a different user?
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 21:26:03 -0700
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I haven't been around watching the mailing list long enough, but are there
plans in the works to make the login command work properly? When I say
properly, I mean in the way that it works under a regular Unix system. If
the person who is in charge of that aspect of cygwin wants I will be glad to
help with some debugging stuff. But thanks for the suggestion for the time
being I think it will help.

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"Michael A Chase" <mchase AT ix DOT netcom DOT com> wrote in message
news:E170agJ-0006me-00 AT tisch DOT mail DOT mindspring DOT net...
> On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 20:43:16 -0700 Daniel Adams <danpadams AT infomagic DOT net>
wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to login as a different user (under cygwin for a shell)
> > for a
> > win2k machine running the latest everything for cygwin? I am curious of
> > this
> > for multiple reasons. I am mainly wondering so that I can have multiple
> > completely independent profiles in pine.
>
> For now, it might be easier to just change $HOME since I think Pine keeps
> it's user specific configuration information under there.
>
> > I realize ahead of time this could be a rather dumb question, but I have
> > tried the login command such as I can do on regular Unix machines and
> > that
> > has never accepted any input of any types.
>
> login serves no purpose in a console window.  It's for remote users.
>
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