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Re: [1.7] su (goldstar)


On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 03:46:14PM -0600, DePriest, Jason R. wrote:
>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.

Hey, you know, this is goldstar worthy.  You really reminded me of the
right way to handle this type of question.  Seriously.

It's always best to provide more details than just "No".  I forgot that.

Thanks for (indirectly) reminding me.

cgf

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