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According to Igor Peshansky on 1/5/2006 3:37 PM:
Hi,
'su' used to be an executable that worked correctly from a SYSTEM-owned
shell, but now it's a shell script that simply prints a "not supported"
message. Is it possible to resurrect the old "su" executable (that
perhaps prints the same message if run from a non-SYSTEM account)?
Coreutils certainly builds an su executable, but the cygwin distro of su
has been a script since at least 5.2.1 when Corinna was the maintainer; I
only enhanced the script to be a little more useful. I'll see what I can
do about getting the executable built and running, but no promise on a
timeline; is there any easy run-time test as to whether the current user
is SYSTEM and should try to perform user switching, vs. normal users to
print a warning message that su is relatively useless under cygwin/Windows
semantics?