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Stephen Grant Brown wrote, On 17.6.2006 13:21:
> Hi There
> I would like to run programs as root, which means the userid and group
> need to be set to 0, and the name needs to =3D root.
> I have looked through the ntsec.html document and I afraid it is too
> complicated for me to understand.
> Can somebody explain how to do this to me in a more simplified format
> please?
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> Yours Sincerely Stephen Grant Brown.
There is no root in Cygwin IIRC. Use your Windows' administrator account
instead.

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