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 Message-ID: <41560BD2.CCCA24E0@dessent.net> Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 17:22:42 -0700 From: Brian Dessent Organization: My own little world... MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin login References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com "John M. L." wrote: > I've read the man pages for cygwin's 'login' command and have found little > information to know exactly what it does. I assume it lets you login with a > username but I have tried over and over with no luck. My only guess is that > 'login' uses the local machine or domain accounts (one of which isn't > working correctly). Read /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/login.README. And no, you cannot use it like you want. If you want to switch user credentials you have to use ssh. 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/