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RE: cygwin login and passwords
- From: "Chris January" <chris at atomice dot net>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 10:30:19 +0100
- Subject: RE: cygwin login and passwords
> 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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