On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Chris January wrote:
> > 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
>
> Try chmod 644 /bin/bash. You probably installed Cygwin for "Just Me". Or as
^^^
Umm, 755, maybe?
> an outside bet you might have been bitten by the change to the Cygwin DLL
> that makes ntsec on by default.
> It would appear you have successfuly changed users however
>
> Chris
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