Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: > Based on the document I read, I got the impression that I cannot use su > but login will work. I really do not need to login as different user.
I don't know which document you're referring to, but the first paragraph of /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/login.README says Under NT/2K/XP, login(1) is _not_ supposed to work on the command line to change user context! Though you're able to tweak user permissions to get login(1) working that way, that's NOT officially supported. > However, I see that xinetd does not work as it should. It also > misteriously dies with some sort of permission denied message. So when I > did a xinetd -d to see the transcript of an attempt to telnet, I saw > something similar to login failure. So I decided to try a simple > experiment with login. But I really need inetd/telnet/ftp to work. >From your cygcheck, you have no services installed. How are you running xinetd? You can't just run it as "xinetd &" because under Windows, regualr user accounts do not have the privileges necessary to switch user credentials. You need to install it as a service running as SYSTEM. Services are the analog of daemons in the unix world. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
