On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:34:49AM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > David Halstead wrote: >> Hi, >> I have spent a week trying to find how to 'su' or login as root, and have >> failed abysmally. >> Could you please help me resolve this. > > "root" doesn't mean anything on Windows natively. "Administrator" is a > close (but still quite different) substitute. In any case, try installing > the 'openssh' package, configuring it as per the readme in > /usr/share/doc/Cygwin, and then 'ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Use > password authentication (the default really). > >> It appears that there is no way to grant the permissions stated in >> Corinnas Document, but there has to be some way round the problem. > > Ah yes, Corinna's document. We're all so familiar with this document so > it is called just that - "Corinna's Document" or CD for short. ;-)
Actually, I'm so familiar with it that I refer to it as "" for short. It seems like some judicious reading of http://problems.html might be in order. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
