From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8397 invoked by alias); 25 Apr 2002 04:22:57 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 8378 invoked from network); 25 Apr 2002 04:22:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO main.gmane.org) (80.91.224.249) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 25 Apr 2002 04:22:56 -0000 Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 170amP-0003Mo-00 for ; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 06:22:49 +0200 To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 170amP-0003Mg-00 for ; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 06:22:49 +0200 Path: not-for-mail From: "Daniel Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin Subject: Re: Login as a different user? Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 22:18:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: qdsl-52.dsl.infomagic.net X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1019708569 12937 63.229.104.52 (25 Apr 2002 04:22:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 04:22:49 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-SW-Source: 2002-04/txt/msg01411.txt.bz2 I haven't been around watching the mailing list long enough, but are there plans in the works to make the login command work properly? When I say properly, I mean in the way that it works under a regular Unix system. If the person who is in charge of that aspect of cygwin wants I will be glad to help with some debugging stuff. But thanks for the suggestion for the time being I think it will help. -- Sincerely, Daniel Adams - dpa3@dana.ucc.nau.edu http://dana.ucc.nau.edu/~dpa3 1 Peter 4:10 (NIV)- Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God's grace in its various forms. "Michael A Chase" wrote in message news:E170agJ-0006me-00@tisch.mail.mindspring.net... > On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 20:43:16 -0700 Daniel Adams wrote: > > > Is there a way to login as a different user (under cygwin for a shell) > > for a > > win2k machine running the latest everything for cygwin? I am curious of > > this > > for multiple reasons. I am mainly wondering so that I can have multiple > > completely independent profiles in pine. > > For now, it might be easier to just change $HOME since I think Pine keeps > it's user specific configuration information under there. > > > I realize ahead of time this could be a rather dumb question, but I have > > tried the login command such as I can do on regular Unix machines and > > that > > has never accepted any input of any types. > > login serves no purpose in a console window. It's for remote users. > > -- > Mac :}) > ** I normally forward private questions to the appropriate mail list. ** > Ask Smarter: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.htm > Give a hobbit a fish and he eats fish for a day. > Give a hobbit a ring and he eats fish for an age. > > > > -- > 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/