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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.
Awarded. http://cygwin.com/goldstars/#JD
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