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From: "DePriest, Jason R." <jrdepriest AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:46:14 -0600
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Subject: Re: [1.7] su
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On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:15 PM,  <> wrote:
> Is su supposed to work? =A0When I try from an unprivileged account
> I get:

I did the work of visiting the cygwin home page to read the 1.7 FAQ
and user guide.

Here you are told that it doesn't work.
http://cygwin.com/1.7/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.su

Here you are told some other ways to do the thing you may want to do.
http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-setuid-overview

Good luck.

-Jason

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