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| author | David Starks-Browning <starksb@ebi.ac.uk> | 2001-07-06 03:29:43 +0400 |
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| committer | David Starks-Browning <starksb@ebi.ac.uk> | 2001-07-06 03:29:43 +0400 |
| commit | 3f5ab6915c0bfc8c0438ed05500b130c2914967d (patch) | |
| tree | a0df4246c8a85155c22d47517f832adfa52086ba | |
| parent | ad78f91ea8295fc843c868cc5ada9306f47d0dd7 (diff) | |
New entry "Where is the su command?"
| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/doc/how-using.texinfo | 10 |
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diff --git a/winsup/doc/how-using.texinfo b/winsup/doc/how-using.texinfo index 963480001..d5df8e6f6 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/how-using.texinfo +++ b/winsup/doc/how-using.texinfo @@ -110,6 +110,16 @@ itself a symbolic link, then find will not traverse it unless you specify the @samp{-follow} option. This behavior is different than most other UNIX implementations, but is not likely to change. +@subsection Where is the @samp{su} command? + +The @samp{su} command is not ported to Cygwin, so it is no longer +provided in the distribution. You may be able to use @samp{login} +instead, but you should read +@file{http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-03/msg00337.html} first. + +If you have a copy of su, then it's from an old Cygwin distribution, and +it probably doesn't work properly anyway. + @subsection Why doesn't man (or apropos) work? Even after installing the @samp{man} package, you get an error like this: |