http://www.google.com/search?q=login+site%3Acygwin.com -----Original Message----- From: Malachi De �lfweald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 2:45 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Problem with root account, login, X, KDE, etc -- none of the docu mentation seemed to work -----Original Message----- From: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 11:50 PM To: Malachi De ?lfweald Subject: Re: Cygwin Question Please ask Cygwin related questions on the appropriate mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribing is easy by sending an empty email to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Corinna On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 02:07:47PM -0700, Malachi De ?lfweald wrote: > Corinna, > > I realize you're busy -- so I will try to keep this short. > > I have been reading through your docs (inetutils readme, login readme, > website comments, forum comments, etc) and I just can't seem to get past > this issue. > I have tried everything I could find in any doc (yours or anothers), and it > just isn't working. > > >From within cygwin, I type "login". No matter what user (or domain\user) I > use, it always fails. I have followed the docs regarding the mkpasswd, the > mkgroup, environment variables.... > The reason I am trying to do this is because I installed XFree86 and KDE. I > am trying to run "kdm" (or even "xdm") and it just says that only root can > run it. But I can't log in as root (or even myself). > > Any possible help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thank you, > Malachi -- Corinna Vinschen Cygwin Developer Red Hat, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
