On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 01:54:23AM -0000, Chris January wrote: > > > > 'su' is not implemented in cygwin (yet). The closest you can get now is > > > setting up sshd and using 'ssh user@localhost'. There was some talk of > > > one of the new packages having that functionality, but you'd > > have to read > > > the mailing list archives to verify that. > > > Igor > > > > Well, actually, I made a search on su, but I didn't get any answer. > > Thanks for yours. :-) > See here for source and binary. Works on XP only. (Also works on Windows 2k, > but you can't escalate priveleges - i.e. can't get Administrator from normal > User account). > > http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ccj00/twiki/bin/view/Cygwin/CygwinSu > > Chris
Hi Chris I have just tried this on Windows XP as Administrator. I tried to su to a normal user but got: su: cannot run /bin/bash: Permission denied This is with cygwin 1.3.19. I used the binary from your page. Do your have any ideas? Thanks a lot Lars Munch -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
