Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <3A6DC756.C0743D83@informix.com> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 18:03:03 +0000 From: Gerrit le Roux Reply-To: gerrit.le-roux@informix.com Organization: Informix X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: su & login Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi I am very impressed with Cygwin. I went through the User Guide, and also found most of my questions answered in the FAQ. I used mkpasswd and mkgroup to create the local users and re-direct that into /etc/passwd and /etc/group. My problem is that I can't use su or login to login as another (local) user. I need to do that for DB Admin work (on the same machine), and I don't want to log in (from NT) as the DB Admin user (I don't have access), as this is only a local account, my user account is also a domain account, using the same password. (I need to see the rest of the network, logged in using my own username, for various reasons.) Whenever I tried to use login I get: login: no shell: /bin/bash: Permission denied It doesn't matter which shell I use (/bin/sh gives the same error), but I get logged in as that user if I used the other username to log onto NT - by running Cygwin it automatically logs me on as the user I am on NT. Also, I tried su: su: cannot set user id: Not owner. I am able to su with the same id as what I'm logged in as (bit useless, but it shows that su is working) It does check the password, because if I type in the wrong password, I get " login incorrect" The same happens with my root user, and Administrator. The only deviation is when using su ( and it assumes root) , then it tells me the password is incorrect. But I can log into NT with that password. It would be highly appreciated if you could suggest something. Great product!!! I really like the mapping of drives Regards Gerrit le Roux Ascential Software -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple