Re: su command removed / coreutils-8.23-2

2014-09-12 Thread Denis Mühle
Am 12.09.2014 06:13, schrieb Eric Blake: On 09/11/2014 09:16 PM, Denis Mühle wrote: Hello, today i've updated my cygwin and now i have a big problem. the su command was removed. https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2014-08/msg00245.html i need su to start my services as seperate user, because

su command removed / coreutils-8.23-2

2014-09-11 Thread Denis Mühle
Hello, today i've updated my cygwin and now i have a big problem. the su command was removed. https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2014-08/msg00245.html i need su to start my services as seperate user, because i have a webinterface to manage my services for both Linux and Windows and it needs

Re: su command removed / coreutils-8.23-2

2014-09-11 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On 2014-09-11 22:16, Denis Mühle wrote: i need su to start my services as seperate user, because i have a webinterface to manage my services for both Linux and Windows and it needs the su command. - will the su command come back to cygwin? I don't know. The coreutils 'su' was removed

Re: su command removed / coreutils-8.23-2

2014-09-11 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/11/2014 09:16 PM, Denis Mühle wrote: Hello, today i've updated my cygwin and now i have a big problem. the su command was removed. https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2014-08/msg00245.html i need su to start my services as seperate user, because i have a webinterface to manage my

Re: About the 'su' command

2003-07-01 Thread Brian Dessent
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why rewrite 'su' to do those types of tricks, when 'ssh' already exists? Uhhh - how about script portability?? (Which is why I predict su will someday be made to do this. When?? Simple, When somebody does it ) [ I ain't demand'in nothin from nobody ]

Re: About the 'su' command

2003-07-01 Thread Brian . Kelly
: (bcc: Brian Kelly/WTC1/Empire) Subject:Re: About the 'su' command [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why rewrite 'su' to do those types of tricks, when 'ssh' already exists? Uhhh - how about script portability?? (Which is why I predict su will someday be made to do this. When?? Simple

Re: About the 'su' command

2003-07-01 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am I missing something? In my not-so-humble opinion, script portibility means copy script to box, maybe chmod it to make it executable - and GO!! I'm guessing that su will be part of the future default capability of cygwin. So do we, but it

Re: About the 'su' command

2003-06-30 Thread Brian . Kelly
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@cygwin.com on 06/29/2003 07:34:57 PM Sent by:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: Brian Kelly/WTC1/Empire) Subject:Re: About the 'su' command Is this, or could this be made, part of the standard Cygwin docs and/or FAQ? Very nice explanation, Bill

Re: About the 'su' command

2003-06-30 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
It is. See http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#NTSEC-SETUID. Igor On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Karsten M. Self wrote: Is this, or could this be made, part of the standard Cygwin docs and/or FAQ? Very nice explanation, Bill. Peace. on Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 08:51:24AM -0400, Bill C.

Re: About the 'su' command

2003-06-30 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
) Subject:Re: About the 'su' command Is this, or could this be made, part of the standard Cygwin docs and/or FAQ? Very nice explanation, Bill. Peace. on Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 08:51:24AM -0400, Bill C. Riemers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: The second says the command wont work unless I have

Re: About the 'su' command

2003-06-30 Thread Elfyn McBratney
. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]@cygwin.com on 06/29/2003 07:34:57 PM Sent by:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: Brian Kelly/WTC1/Empire) Subject:Re: About the 'su' command Is this, or could this be made, part of the standard Cygwin docs and/or FAQ? Very nice

Re: About the 'su' command

2003-06-30 Thread Brian . Kelly
| |^ | \ \// \___/ Igor Pechtchanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 06/30/2003 08:45:48 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: About the 'su' command Brian, That's the reason behind the cygdaemon

Re: About the 'su' command

2003-06-30 Thread andrew brian clegg
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 08:51:24AM -0400, Bill C. Riemers wrote: Now you ask, Well then, why can ssh do pipes. Very simple, 'ssh' sticks around after starting the child process starts passing data from open file descriptors though sockets.

Re: About the 'su' command

2003-06-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
Is this, or could this be made, part of the standard Cygwin docs and/or FAQ? Very nice explanation, Bill. Peace. on Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 08:51:24AM -0400, Bill C. Riemers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: The second says the command wont work unless I have appropriate privileges. Do you know

Re: About the 'su' command

2003-06-18 Thread Bill C. Riemers
The second says the command wont work unless I have appropriate privileges. Do you know someone on an XP station that has more powers than the Administrator or an Administrators member ? On most Unix systems, if you create a user with UID 65535 you will find that user is unable to run 'suid'

Re: About the 'su' command

2003-06-18 Thread Ross Presser
Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Do you know someone on an XP station that has more powers than the Administrator or an Administrators member ? Certainly. SYSTEM. But I'd highly recommend using ssh instead of su. That way you don't have to create a user

Re: About the 'su' command

2003-06-18 Thread Larry Hall
Ross Presser wrote: Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Do you know someone on an XP station that has more powers than the Administrator or an Administrators member ? Certainly. SYSTEM. But I'd highly recommend using ssh instead of su. That way you don't have to

Re: About the 'su' command

2003-06-17 Thread Larry Hall
Sylvain Petreolle wrote: Hi all developers, I want to make some report bout the 'su' command. - The FAQ entry about it seems deprecated (or at least not completely true) This command is shown as removed from the distribution, but according to http://www.cygwin.com/packages, it is included in sh

Re: About the 'su' command

2003-06-17 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
Really? Here's two useful and informative messages I found on the first page of hits from google: (I used the mailing list serach engine :) but of course google pOwEr ) www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2001-04/msg00051.html Reading the first one and its thread doesnt give a valuable reason to

Re: About the 'su' command

2003-06-17 Thread Larry Hall
Sylvain Petreolle wrote: Really? Here's two useful and informative messages I found on the first page of hits from google: (I used the mailing list serach engine :) but of course google pOwEr ) First mistake. ;-) www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2001-04/msg00051.html Reading the first one and

Re: About the 'su' command

2003-06-17 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
Do you mean here that the only user who can do 'su' at the moment is SYSTEM ?? Certainly. SYSTEM. But I'd highly recommend using ssh instead of su. That way you don't have to create a user with privileges that opens a security hole just so you can su. Of course, you can do so if you

Re: About the 'su' command

2003-06-17 Thread Larry Hall
Sylvain Petreolle wrote: Do you mean here that the only user who can do 'su' at the moment is SYSTEM ?? Certainly. SYSTEM. But I'd highly recommend using ssh instead of su. That way you don't have to create a user with privileges that opens a security hole just so you can su. Of course, you

About the 'su' command

2003-06-16 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
Hi all developers, I want to make some report bout the 'su' command. - The FAQ entry about it seems deprecated (or at least not completely true) This command is shown as removed from the distribution, but according to http://www.cygwin.com/packages, it is included in sh-utils-2.0.15-3 (current

Re: su command ?

2003-01-29 Thread Elfyn McBratney
I have just tried this on Windows XP as Administrator. I tried to su to a normal user but got: su: cannot run /bin/bash: Permission denied When you installed cygwin did you install it for All Users or Just Me? If the latter you need to run-through set-up, no need to re-install just run

RE: su command ?

2003-01-29 Thread Chris January
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 01:54:23AM -, Chris January wrote: '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

RE: su command ?

2003-01-29 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Chris January wrote: On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 01:54:23AM -, Chris January wrote: '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

RE: su command ?

2003-01-29 Thread Chris January
I have just tried this on Windows XP as Administrator. I tried to su to a normal user but got: su: cannot run /bin/bash: Permission denied Try chmod 644 /bin/bash. You probably installed Cygwin for Just Obviously this is stupid as it would make it unexecutable... Permissions on my

su command ?

2002-12-23 Thread Oodini
Hello, It seems that the su command doesn't work, although it is in the man/info pages. Any clue ? -- . . . .:::. ### \|/` ___ ' :(o o): . (o o) (o o) - (O o) - ooO--(_)--Ooo-ooO--(_)--Ooo-ooO--(_)--Ooo-ooO--(_)--Ooo- -- Unsubscribe

Re: su command ?

2002-12-23 Thread Oodini
Igor Pechtchanski a écrit: '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