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From: "Chris January" <chris AT atomice DOT net>
To: "Cygwin AT Cygwin DOT Com" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: su command ?
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 01:54:23 -0000
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> > 'su' is not implemented in cygwin (yet).  The closest you can get now is
> > setting up sshd and using 'ssh user AT localhost'.  There was some talk of
> > one of the new packages having that functionality, but you'd
> have to read
> > the mailing list archives to verify that.
> > 	Igor
>
> Well, actually, I made a search on su, but I didn't get any answer.
> Thanks for yours. :-)
See here for source and binary. Works on XP only. (Also works on Windows 2k,
but you can't escalate priveleges - i.e. can't get Administrator from normal
User account).

http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ccj00/twiki/bin/view/Cygwin/CygwinSu

Chris


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