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Re: Login as a different user?


At 12:26 AM 4/25/2002, Daniel Adams wrote:
>I haven't been around watching the mailing list long enough, but are there
>plans in the works to make the login command work properly? When I say
>properly, I mean in the way that it works under a regular Unix system. If
>the person who is in charge of that aspect of cygwin wants I will be glad to
>help with some debugging stuff. But thanks for the suggestion for the time
>being I think it will help.


Check the email archives on this subject if you're interested.  There's no
planned work in this area due to Windows restrictions and availability of 
alternatives (i.e. ssh is the best option).



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