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Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 17:22:42 -0700
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Cygwin login
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"John M. L." wrote:

> I've read the man pages for cygwin's 'login' command and have found little
> information to know exactly what it does.  I assume it lets you login with a
> username but I have tried over and over with no luck.  My only guess is that
> 'login' uses the local machine or domain accounts (one of which isn't
> working correctly).

Read /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/login.README.  And no, you cannot use it like
you want.  If you want to switch user credentials you have to use ssh.

Brian

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