On Thursday 14 December 2000 10:43, Winifred Sanchez wrote:
> i have created a user "user1" that would be the owner of my db just
> so that the db server would not run under the administrator account.
> however, when i try to run 'su user1' so that i can activate the db
> server, i always get "su: connot set user id:Not owner". is there a
> way to change users in cygwin? how is it done?
Have a look into the two readme files
/usr/doc/Cygwin/intetutils-1.3.2.README
/usr/doc/Cygwin/openssh-2.3.0p1.README
Both contain an explanation. `su' doesn't work on Windows under default
circumstances and it never works without giving a password.
And no, `su' is build, but never really ported.
Corinna
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