Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 17:32:10 +0100 To: chris@atomice.net Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: su command ? Message-ID: <20030129163210.GA21633@tuxedo.skovlyporten.dk> References: <3E07A0B7.3060309@free.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i From: lars@segv.dk (Lars Munch) 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 This is with cygwin 1.3.19. I used the binary from your page. Do your have any ideas? Thanks a lot Lars Munch -- 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/