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Re: [1.7] su
- From: "DePriest, Jason R." <jrdepriest at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:46:14 -0600
- Subject: Re: [1.7] su
- References: <op.u3nunr1t5o90vo@orion>
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
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