"su" command removed / coreutils-8.23-2
Yaakov Selkowitz
yselkowitz@cygwin.com
Fri Sep 12 04:13:00 GMT 2014
On 2014-09-11 22:16, Denis MÃŒhle 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 upstream; nowadays 'su' is
provided by util-linux, but that version requires PAM.
> - or is there a alternative workaround? ( without password / login )
You can run sshd on the machine, then use ssh to login as another user.
Yaakov
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