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 Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Info: This message was accepted for relay by smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net as the sender used SMTP authentication X-Trace: UmFuZG9tSVY4TsDVoiOcyIOd08BFhh3tkseFu4EI9LlSjKn3Nj2Ia6AyRP53SnCQ Message-ID: <3EEFA434.90409@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 19:28:52 -0400 From: Larry Hall Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sylvain Petreolle CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: About the 'su' command References: <20030617232103 DOT 79106 DOT qmail AT web10102 DOT mail DOT yahoo DOT com> In-Reply-To: <20030617232103.79106.qmail@web10102.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sylvain Petreolle wrote: >>Really? Here's two useful and informative messages I found on the >>first >>page of hits from google: > > (I used the mailing list serach engine :) but of course google pOwEr ) First mistake. ;-) >> > > Reading the first one and its thread doesnt give a valuable reason to > keep the FAQ out of sync. You're welcome to submit a patch. I offered this thread as "good background" only. I wasn't seeking to justify the FAQ's entry. >> >> >>Does this not answer your question and provide suitable options for >>you? > > The second says the command wont work unless I have appropriate > privileges. > Do you know "someone" on an XP station that has more powers than the > Administrator or an Administrators member ? Certainly. SYSTEM. But I'd highly recommend using ssh instead of su. That way you don't have to create a user with privileges that opens a security hole just so you can su. Of course, you can do so if you prefer. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/