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Re: su & login
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: su & login
- From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 20:17:09 +0100
- References: <3A6DC756.C0743D83@informix.com>
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 06:03:03PM +0000, Gerrit le Roux wrote:
> Whenever I tried to use login I get:
>
> login: no shell: /bin/bash: Permission denied
>
> It doesn't matter which shell I use (/bin/sh gives the same error), but
> I get logged in as that user if I used the other username to log onto NT
> - by running Cygwin it automatically logs me on as the user I am on NT.
>
> Also, I tried su:
>
> su: cannot set user id: Not owner.
>
> I am able to su with the same id as what I'm logged in as (bit useless,
> but it shows that su is working)
>
> It does check the password, because if I type in the wrong password, I
> get " login incorrect"
>
> The same happens with my root user, and Administrator. The only
> deviation is when using su ( and it assumes root) , then
> it tells me the password is incorrect. But I can log into NT with that
> password.
Read /usr/doc/Cygwin/inetutils-1.3.2.README. It contains some hints
related to user rights on NT etc.
Read the online documentation on http://cygwin.com/docs.html,
especially the ntsec chapter.
Corinna
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