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 Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 20:47:29 +0100 Message-Id: <3838-Mon29Sep2003204729+0100-david@starks-browning.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Matt Swift Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: /usr/bin/su.exe in sh-utils always fails In-Reply-To: References: From: David Starks-Browning On Monday 29 Sep 03, Matt Swift writes: > The Cygwin FAQ says that there is no `su' command in recent versions > of Cygwin, The sh-utils package, however, currently contains an `su' > command, but it doesn't work. The shell transcript below illustrates > the problem. You have to trust me that I offer the same password to > `su' as I do to `ssh'. So the FAQ should point out that the su from sh-utils doesn't work, instead of saying that there is no su command. I'll update it. David -- 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/