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 From: William Guynes To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Possible to login as different user? Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2001 15:17:08 -0500 Organization: DownWithSpam, Inc. Reply-To: wguynes@mav.net Message-ID: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This problem is so fundamental in nature that it does not appear in the documentation. Yes, I have read about NTSEC in the documentation. I log into my Win2kPro box as me (i.e. not Administrator), but I am a member of Administrator group. Cygwin has also set up a "me" and an "administrator" login. What is the expected procedure for me to login as "administrator", assuming I'm logged in to Win2kPro as "me" to begin with? - "su" command is non-existant in my default install. I installed everything possible with the setup.exe. - "login" gives a "Login incorrect" After reading some of the mailing list archives, I used crypt and tried to manually edit the /etc/passwd file password for those two logins. My problem appears to be some fundamental lack of understanding of the differences between a full Unix system and Cygwin unix-emulation. Cygwin has some expectations I'm only beginning to comprehend. -- William Guynes -- 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/