Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/2000/10/02/07:34:37
--- Corinna Vinschen <vinschen AT cygnus DOT com> wrote:
>
> But you don't need to `su' to get that. You can simply _be_ root in
> terms of POSIX. For example your NT domain\username is "FOO\earnie",
> you are member of Administrators (SID: S-1-5-32-544) and your SID is
> S-1-5-21-12345678-56789012-34567890-1002.
>
> If you are using "ntsec" you can set your /etc/passwd entry that way:
>
>
root::0:0:U-FOO\earnie,S-1-5-21-12345678-56789012-34567890-1002:/home/root:/bin/bash
>
> and in /etc/group:
>
> root:S-1-5-32-544:0:
>
> and voila, your Cygwin uid is 0 and gid is 0 as well and all POSIX tools
> recognize you as `root', member of group `root'.
>
Yes, I'm aware of that. My /etc/passwd would read:
earnie::1002:544:U-FOO\earnie,S-1-5-21-12345678-56789012-34567890-1002:/home/root:/bin/bash
root::0:0:U-FOO\earnie,S-1-5-21-12345678-56789012-34567890-1002:/home/root:/bin/bash
I want account earnie to be the default when logging on. Cygwin is running on
an NT4sp4 workstation with no one else using it. I have administrative rights
to the local machine as Domain User (I don't administer the domain). I need to
be able to su root in order to have some daemon programs I'm trying to port
think that I'm UID=0.
Now, I could modify the daemon but IMO I shouldn't have to. So, what in your
opinion is the best way to implement this scenario in Cygwin? I understand
that the ability to maintain the current function is probably wanted so
something like ntsec=workstation is going to be necessary.
Cheers,
=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com
--- <http://earniesystems.safeshopper.com> ---
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