Re: root user of cygwin

2003-03-27 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Lu Fang wrote: > Hi, all > Can anyone tell me which user is the root user on cygwin? I'm not sure about > this concept of "root user" , if I want to login to cygwin as root user, > which account should I use? I installed cygwin under win2k operating system, > and there is no a

Re: root user of cygwin

2003-03-26 Thread Elfyn McBratney
> On a traditional Unix system, a root user is one with uid=0 > (uid is an abbreviation of user id). > > On an MS-Windows NT family system (NT, 2000, XP), an administrative > account is one in the group Administrators. > > I'm no expert (rather a novice in many ways with cygwin), but > I suspect th

Re: root user of cygwin

2003-03-26 Thread amores nolikeyjunk
On a traditional Unix system, a root user is one with uid=0 (uid is an abbreviation of user id). On an MS-Windows NT family system (NT, 2000, XP), an administrative account is one in the group Administrators. I'm no expert (rather a novice in many ways with cygwin), but I suspect that the upper con

root user of cygwin

2003-03-26 Thread Lu Fang
Hi, all Can anyone tell me which user is the root user on cygwin? I'm not sure about this concept of "root user" , if I want to login to cygwin as root user, which account should I use? I installed cygwin under win2k operating system, and there is no any system user name "root". Can anyone help?