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Re: su command ?
- From: lars at segv dot dk (Lars Munch)
- To: chris at atomice dot net
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 17:32:10 +0100
- Subject: Re: su command ?
- References: <3E07A0B7.3060309@free.fr> <LPEHIHGCJOAIPFLADJAHMEJMDCAA.chris@atomice.net>
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 01:54:23AM -0000, Chris January wrote:
>
> > > '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
> >
> > Well, actually, I made a search on su, but I didn't get any answer.
> > Thanks for yours. :-)
> See here for source and binary. Works on XP only. (Also works on Windows 2k,
> but you can't escalate priveleges - i.e. can't get Administrator from normal
> User account).
>
> http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ccj00/twiki/bin/view/Cygwin/CygwinSu
>
> Chris
Hi Chris
I have just tried this on Windows XP as Administrator. I tried to su to
a normal user but got:
su: cannot run /bin/bash: Permission denied
This is with cygwin 1.3.19. I used the binary from your page.
Do your have any ideas?
Thanks a lot
Lars Munch
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