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Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 09:43:28 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Maur=EDcio?= <briqueabraque AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: using ntsec, su doesn't work
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On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Maurício wrote:

>    Hi,
>
>    I'm using cygwin latest install. I did:
>
> mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd
> mkgroup -l > /etc/group
>
>    When I log as administrator or as user (postgres), 'who' gives the
> proper name. However, when I try 'su Administrator' or 'su postgres' it
> rejects the password. I can log on win2000 using those passwords.
>    What am I doing wrong?
>
>    Thanks,
>    Maurcio

Nothing, this is expected behavior.  'su' doesn't work under Cygwin unless
the user has appropriate privileges.  See
<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#NTSEC-RELEASE1.3.3> for
details.  You can always use "ssh user AT localhost" or Windows services
("at" or "runas").
	Igor
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