On Jul 17 16:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jul 17 10:40, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > Are there bad reasons for not just calling this account "root"? > > A while back I thought this is a good idea, but not anymore. > > The account is a service-starter account only. Nothing else should be > done with this account and the installation script actually forbids > this account to be used for logon. I don't want people to get the wrong > idea what this account is for. I know from earlier discussions that > some people are already using the root account name as a substitute > for some Admin account, or that some people are already created a root > account on their machines. I can easily imagine what happens next after > we occupied the root account name for the service-starter account.
Having said that, the account name is still open for discussion of course. If everybody except me thinks "root" is a good idea, so be it. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
