X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251; format=flowed Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 13:31:48 +0400 From: Fedin Pavel

Subject: su: Operfation not permitted To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-id: <4FAE2E04.5020902@samsung.com> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20120206 Thunderbird/10.0 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com I'm unable to use 'su' command. When i attempt to do so, i get: su: /bin/bash: Operation not permitted This is different from wrong password or insufficient permissions, because if so, Cygwin explicitly informs me: su: incorrect password, or insufficient privileges to change user (see http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-setuid): Permission denied What else can be wrong ? -- Kind regards Pavel Fedin Expert engineer, Samsung Moscow research center -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple