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Re: Login as a different user?


On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 20:43:16 -0700 Daniel Adams <danpadams@infomagic.net> wrote:

> Is there a way to login as a different user (under cygwin for a shell)
> for a
> win2k machine running the latest everything for cygwin? I am curious of
> this
> for multiple reasons. I am mainly wondering so that I can have multiple
> completely independent profiles in pine.

For now, it might be easier to just change $HOME since I think Pine keeps
it's user specific configuration information under there.

> I realize ahead of time this could be a rather dumb question, but I have
> tried the login command such as I can do on regular Unix machines and
> that
> has never accepted any input of any types.

login serves no purpose in a console window.  It's for remote users.

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