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Subject: RE: incorrect password, or insufficient privileges
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 17:28:14 -0400
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McGraw, Robert P. wrote:
> I have installed the latest cygwin and under my account it seem to
> work fine. I can open the cygwin window and run the unix commands. 
> 
> The account that I installed under is user = xxxyyy.
> 
> When I start the cygwin.bat file it works fine and I go to my home
> directory /home/xxxyyy 
> 
> I can "su xxxyyy" without any problems. Shows that su works.
> 
> If I try to just "su" I get
> 
> "su: incorrect password, or insufficient privileges to change user "
> 
> I have search google and several other sites to try and fine what is
> going on. 
> 
> Any ideas.
> 
> Robert
> _____________________________________________________________________
> Robert P. McGraw, Jr.
> Manager, Computer System                 EMAIL: rmcgraw AT purdue DOT edu
> Purdue University                         ROOM: MATH-807
> Department of Mathematics                PHONE: (765) 494-6055
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