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Re: "su" command removed / coreutils-8.23-2


On 2014-09-11 22:16, Denis Mühle wrote:
i need "su" to start my services as seperate user,
because i have a webinterface to manage my services for both Linux and
Windows and it needs the "su" command.

  - will the "su" command  come back to cygwin?

I don't know. The coreutils 'su' was removed upstream; nowadays 'su' is provided by util-linux, but that version requires PAM.

  - or is there a alternative workaround? ( without password /  login )

You can run sshd on the machine, then use ssh to login as another user.


Yaakov



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