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Subject:	Re: Creating superuser (root) in Cygwin
Date:	Mon, 08 Nov 2004 13:16:36 +0000
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> You cannot just create a superuser in cygwin because cygwin is a
> translation layer for UNIX applications.  Cygwin is not actual UNIX
> and there are limitations.  Basically cygwin is using the host
> machine's security model rather than unix's own native security model
> and porting is not straight forward for some applications.  It is even
> worse when it comes to WIndows 9x than with Windows NT where as 9x has
> no security model of its own (that I am aware about).  The passwd and
> group files are there for compatibility and allows some applications
> to work.  At least that is my understanding.

Thanks Robert.

I'm on WindowsXP and I'm trying to run sudo 
(http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/) what do you think I should do.



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