Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20010111103004.021ec190@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:32:33 -0500 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: why am I administrator? In-Reply-To: <20010111083520.U4141@cobold.vinschen.de> References: <4.3.1.2.20010110163827.021e72b8@pop.ma.ultranet.com> <81CC73FC2FACD311A2D200508B8B88AA1ADB07@kurion_exch.kurion. com> <4.3.1.2.20010110163827.021e72b8@pop.ma.ultranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 02:35 AM 1/11/2001, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >Create a correct /etc/passwd entry, that's it. `mkpasswd' will be >your friend. And read the documentation. That helps a lot and avoids >having _everything_ twice, in the documentation and in the FAQ. Right. There's no need to make the FAQ a copy of the user documentation. An entry that points there for this kind of question would be helpful but anything much beyond that is overkill and promotes laziness.;-) Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple