Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <00bb01c1c777$7873b890$d700a8c0@mchasecompaq> From: "Michael A Chase" To: "Paul Berg" , References: <002e01c1c735$51a13cc0$4700000a@zephyr> Subject: Re: loging in as root/superuser Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 06:03:51 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Berg" To: Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 22:40 Subject: loging in as root/superuser > just got cygwin a couple of days ago and have been trying to login as > root/superuser but can't get in.. what is the password set to when it is > installed? There is none; Cygwin is not a full OS, it runs within Windows. Please read the documentation at http://cygwin.com/docs.html . The simplest way to get started is to click on the icon created for you by setup.exe. -- Mac :}) ** I normally forward private questions to the appropriate mail list. ** Ask Smarter: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Give a hobbit a fish and he eats fish for a day. Give a hobbit a ring and he eats fish for an age. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/