On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Maurício wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using cygwin latest install. I did: > > mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd > mkgroup -l > /etc/group > > When I log as administrator or as user (postgres), 'who' gives the > proper name. However, when I try 'su Administrator' or 'su postgres' it > rejects the password. I can log on win2000 using those passwords. > What am I doing wrong? > > Thanks, > Maurcio
Nothing, this is expected behavior. 'su' doesn't work under Cygwin unless the user has appropriate privileges. See <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#NTSEC-RELEASE1.3.3> for details. You can always use "ssh user@localhost" or Windows services ("at" or "runas"). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Oh, boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a really *big* RAMdisk! -- /usr/games/fortune -- 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/
