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Re: Can't change password


On Tuesday 18 Sep 01, Corinna Vinschen writes:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 02:21:51AM -0700, Mike Slinn wrote:
> > I want to log in as another user.  Apparently 'login' is only for inetd's
> > use.
> > 
> > su and sudo aren't available - is Cygwin only a partial *nix workalike?
> > 
> > passwd doesn't complain when I try to change another user's password, but
> > how can I log in as them?  I always get a message telling me the password is
> > incorrect.  I try specifying the NT password, but that doesn't work either.
> 
> Sigh.  For some reason I'm pretty sure the answer to your question
> is already in the mailing list archive.  And I answered to that
> question already multiple times...

Mike, there is a FAQ entry "Where is the `su' command?".  If this is
not adequate, let us know what's missing.  I don't use this "feature"
myself, so I can't write a better FAQ entry without more input.

Regards,
David
(Cygwin FAQ maintainer)


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