X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 23:41:31 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Running 'runas' from a console Message-ID: <20090102044130.GC779@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <495D2B7B DOT 7050606 AT alice DOT it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <495D2B7B.7050606@alice.it> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Note-from-DJ: This may be spam On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 09:45:47PM +0100, Angelo Graziosi wrote: >I have seen that running > >$ runas /user:pippo "C:\cygwin\bin\bash --login -i" > >works if it is given from Cygwin.bat console, i.e. it asks the >password for 'pippo' and then it opens a pippo's Cygwin.bat-like >console. > >Instead it doesn't work when one uses another console like xterm, >urxvt, rxvt, mrxvt and... the recent MinTTY, i.e. it seems to exit >silently (but 'ps' shows that there is yet some process running). > >I have flagged this because it would be fine to have MinTTY instead of >Cygwin.bat, but at the moment it looks that there is something that >runs on Cygwin.bat but not in other consoles. It's a standard problem with Cygwin ptys not being recognized as windows consoles. cgf -- 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/