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I've installed Cygwin but have trouble operating it conveniently. I'd like the ability to, for example, 'su peter' where peter has his own preference for home directory, and shell. I don't care about security. I do not need these "user accounts" to be visible to Windows' mechanisms.
I've been stymied in my efforts. I don't know how to set "no password required" in /etc/passwd. 'su' gives command not found.
(BTW, I did install Cygwin on a different machine several years ago with no problem. Am I fighting with recent "improvements"?)
Let me clarify my question. The facilities from /etc/passwd are: * assign a home directory. I want george and peter to have different directories. I do not care whether george and peter can modify each others files or not * I want george to be able to use a different shell from peter. I don't want goerge to need to type ** tcsh ** cd /home/george ** source .cshrc for every single shell that gets spawned. Is there an easy way to achieve this? Does the Windows facility even have the concept of preferred Cygwin shell?
Answer expanded to address your "clarification" – DavidPostill – 2016-02-16T12:41:03.723