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RE: su command ?
- From: "Chris January" <chris at atomice dot net>
- To: "Cygwin at Cygwin dot Com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 01:54:23 -0000
- Subject: RE: su command ?
> > '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
>
> Well, actually, I made a search on su, but I didn't get any answer.
> Thanks for yours. :-)
See here for source and binary. Works on XP only. (Also works on Windows 2k,
but you can't escalate priveleges - i.e. can't get Administrator from normal
User account).
http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ccj00/twiki/bin/view/Cygwin/CygwinSu
Chris
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