On Nov 17 11:46, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: >> 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. > > LOL!
Which only shows how bad at documentation I am. Even the name of the docs are lost in history. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/
