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Marco Atzeri wrote:

> --- Jerome Fong < ha scritto:
>=20
>> I'm trying to login as another person, but using
>> "su" tells me I don't=20
>> have permissions to use bash.  Using login gives me
>> errors about no home=20
>> directory and no permissions to use bash.
>=20
> su does not work.
> See FAQ chapter 4

Yes, it works.  Have you tried it?

About the original problem, su is not a "login", better try 'ssh
other-user AT localhost' if you have sshd running, the first time the other-us=
er
does login his home directory will be created.  Of course that means that t=
he
user was created first in Windows and added to the users recognized by Cygw=
in
(using mkpasswd ...).  An unknown user has no permissions on any directory.
--=20
Ren=E9 Berber


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