Re: su alternative for Win2k

2005-01-29 Thread Reini Urban
Igor Pechtchanski schrieb: On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Andrew Schulman wrote: So now I wonder, is it not just me? Is su in Cygwin broken for everyone? BTW: I stored docbill's su version at http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/publ/cygwin/release/coreutils/su.sh See http://w

Re: su alternative for Win2k

2005-01-28 Thread Andrew Schulman
> On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > So now I wonder, is it not just me? Is su in Cygwin broken for > > everyone? > > Thank you. As I said, I never bothered to look into it... Guess it's time to read the FAQs. Regards, Andrew. -- Unsubsc

Re: su alternative for Win2k

2005-01-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 04:31:02PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Andrew Schulman wrote: >>So now I wonder, is it not just me? Is su in Cygwin broken for >>everyone? > > So, who do we have to su to get this working? cgf *squawk* --

Re: su alternative for Win2k

2005-01-28 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Andrew Schulman wrote: I was just installing postgreSQL and ran across the problem with getting initdb to run as the postgres user. As expected, I could neither su nor login to work. Searching the archives and the like for a fix, the most often specified one was to use ssh. But as I don't run ssh

Re: su alternative for Win2k

2005-01-28 Thread Jonathan Arnold
Andrew Schulman wrote: I was just installing postgreSQL and ran across the problem with getting initdb to run as the postgres user. As expected, I could neither su nor login to work. Searching the archives and the like for a fix, the most often specified one was to use ssh. But as I don't run sshd

Re: su alternative for Win2k

2005-01-28 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Andrew Schulman wrote: > So now I wonder, is it not just me? Is su in Cygwin broken for > everyone? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: su alternative for Win2k

2005-01-28 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I was just installing postgreSQL and ran across the problem with > getting initdb to run as the postgres user. As expected, I could > neither su nor login to work. Searching the archives and the like > for a fix, the most often specified one was to use ssh. But as I > don't run sshd, and it seem

Re: su alternative for Win2k

2005-01-28 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Jonathan Arnold wrote: I was just installing postgreSQL and ran across the problem with getting initdb to run as the postgres user. As expected, I could neither su nor login to work. Searching the archives and the like for a fix, the most often specified one was to use ssh. But as I don't run

su alternative for Win2k

2005-01-28 Thread Jonathan Arnold
I was just installing postgreSQL and ran across the problem with getting initdb to run as the postgres user. As expected, I could neither su nor login to work. Searching the archives and the like for a fix, the most often specified one was to use ssh. But as I don't run sshd, and it seems a shame