On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:15 PM, <> wrote: > Is su supposed to work? When I try from an unprivileged account > I get:
I did the work of visiting the cygwin home page to read the 1.7 FAQ and user guide. Here you are told that it doesn't work. http://cygwin.com/1.7/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.su Here you are told some other ways to do the thing you may want to do. http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-setuid-overview Good luck. -Jason -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple