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Re: su command ?
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Oodini <svdbg at free dot fr>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 18:43:32 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: su command ?
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Oodini wrote:
> Hello,
>
> It seems that the su command doesn't work, although it is in the
> man/info pages.
> Any clue ?
'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
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