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On Nov  8 10:03, Tony Benham wrote:
> I'm running cygwin on a W2003 server box. If I start a bash shell, and then use
> th login command I get an error like
> login: name
> Password:

You can't use the login command on the command line to change the user
due to Windows security constraints.  If you want to change the user
context interactively, install sshd and ssh to localhost.  That's the
easiest way.

Corinna

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