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Re: who should own the /bin directory?
- From: Marco Atzeri <marco_atzeri at yahoo dot it>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:09:20 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: who should own the /bin directory?
--- René Berber ha scritto:
> Marco Atzeri wrote:
>
> > --- Jerome Fong < ha scritto:
> >
> >> I'm trying to login as another person, but using
> >> "su" tells me I don't
> >> have permissions to use bash. Using login gives
> me
> >> errors about no home
> >> directory and no permissions to use bash.
> >
> > su does not work.
> > See FAQ chapter 4
>
> Yes, it works. Have you tried it?
Yes. it does not work.
I suspect for the old reason:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-06/msg00897.html
> About the original problem, su is not a "login",
> better try 'ssh
> other-user@localhost' if you have sshd running, the
> first time the other-user
> does login his home directory will be created. Of
> course that means that the
> user was created first in Windows and added to the
> users recognized by Cygwin
> (using mkpasswd ...). An unknown user has no
> permissions on any directory.
> --
> René Berber
I agree that ssh is the right way to solve the
problem. :-)
Regards
Marco
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