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From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: Chris Sutcliffe <ir0nh34d@gmail.com>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: coreutils-8.25-1
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 23:50:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1529183137.20160312024409@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGHJv4dN2wOVR_conCWV9HvmrSjFsvPwUcN8+r2cy-uW9+kP-Q@mail.gmail.com>

Greetings, Chris Sutcliffe!

>> Anybody out there using 'su'?  Speak now, or forever hold the pieces.
>>

> I would appreciate having a working 'su' command.  I currently make
> use of an elevated terminal to do my Admin duties, so having 'su'
> would come in real handy.

Using it for administration would be a security breach.
runas opens a new terminal for a reason.


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Saturday, March 12, 2016 02:43:19

Sorry for my terrible english...


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  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-11 23:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-09  0:04 Eric Blake (cygwin)
2016-03-09 15:59 ` Eric Blake
2016-03-10  9:47   ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-03-11  6:52 ` Mark Geisert
2016-03-11 14:02   ` Chris Sutcliffe
2016-03-11 23:50     ` Andrey Repin [this message]
2016-03-13 17:33   ` Achim Gratz
2016-03-15 16:27 ` Andrew Schulman
2016-03-15 18:41   ` Achim Gratz
2016-03-15 21:02     ` Andrew Schulman

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