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Date:	Thu, 10 Aug 2000 00:46:57 +0200
From:	Corinna Vinschen <vinschen AT cygnus DOT com>
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To:	Tom Alsberg <alsbergt AT netvision DOT net DOT il>,
	Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject:	Re: root's UID
References:	<00c501c00258$c77d7740$28a6003e AT mellow> <3991DC91 DOT 73B7640A AT cygnus DOT com>

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> Tom Alsberg wrote:
> >
> >   Hi there...
> >   I would like to ask another question - is it possible to set the
> > administrator's UID to 0 in Cygwin? I set up a user like this:
> >
> > root::500:513:,U-administrator,S-1-5-21-480600339-950411759-1606240830-500::
> > /bin/bash
> >
> >   Now the UID for root would be 500. I think that might cause
> > incompatibilities with Unix, as in Unix root's UID is always 0, so if it is
> > possible, what do I have to change?
> 
> Set uid to 0. As long as you are using ntsec that's ok.

Uhmm, forgot that: ntsec _and_ the above S-1-XYZ field in pw_gecos.

> For more information read the ntsec chapter in the online
> documentation (http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/docs.html).

That's still valid.

Corinna

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