Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> ? But it worked anyway, so it seems. This is on a fresh, curr cygwin >> install. > > No, it didn't work. > > The problem you're seeing results from your inability to change > the user context. You can't do it, your account doesn't have the > permission.
Ok, thanks, you're right: fred@ABBICCI ~$ login root Password: Last login: Tue Mar 5 23:27:42 on tty2 Fanfare!!! You are successfully logged in to this server!!! login: no shell: /bin/bash: Permission denied fred@ABBICCI ~$ id uid=1009(fred) gid=513(Geen) groups=0(Iedereen),513(Geen),545(Gebruikers) > That's normal. Hmm, so much for google. You adviced to use login before, http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-03/msg00337.html have things changed since then? > See /usr/doc/Cygwin/login.README. Under NT/2K/XP, login(1) is _not_ supposed to work on the command line to change user context! Though you're able to tweak user permissions to get login(1) working that way, that's NOT officially supported. Ok, so how *do* you change user context? Greetings, Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/