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From: "Chris January" <chris@atomice.net>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: cygwin login and passwords
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 02:53:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000e01c25975$d87afe20$2050b392@csc.mrc.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0H29006ODE1000@mta6.snfc21.pbi.net>

> Is changing uid's and gid's in /etc/passwd something
> to be avoided,  since I assume these are windows assigned?
> 
> Need su and login to work seemlessly with windows'
> passwords in order to allow remote logins and ssh
> clients. Currently, login does not recognize valid
> windows passwords.
I have a version of su that runs on Cygwin. However I need someone to
tell me how to coerce bash into running interactively (currently needs
to be forced via -i flag). I'm starting bash using CreateProcess.

Chris



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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-09-11  9:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-11  0:44 Joseph I. Davida
2002-09-11  1:45 ` Corinna Vinschen
2002-09-11  2:53 ` Chris January [this message]
2002-09-11  3:45   ` Corinna Vinschen
2002-09-11  4:31 Chris January

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