Using "su" on cygwin

Larry Hall lh-no-personal-replies-please@cygwin.com
Thu Aug 12 00:16:00 GMT 2004


At 01:58 PM 8/11/2004, you wrote:
>  Hi,
>
>  I got my /etc/passwd and /etc/group from mkpasswd and mkgroup. When I'm loged as user, sometimes I need to get administrator privileges, for instance, to make and install a library or program. How do I do that? I tried:
>
>su administrator
>
>but it always says I'm using the wrong password (I use the same password I use to log as administrator). What am I doing wrong?


You didn't read this:


>FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/


See "Why doesn't `su' work?":

<http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_toc.html#TOC39>


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