su command ?

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Oodini wrote:

> Hello,
>
> It seems that the su command doesn't work, although it is in the
> man/info pages.
> Any clue ?

'su' is not implemented in cygwin (yet).  The closest you can get now is
setting up sshd and using 'ssh user@localhost'.  There was some talk of
one of the new packages having that functionality, but you'd have to read
the mailing list archives to verify that.
	Igor
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