Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Olumide <50295@web.de> Subject: Re: Creating superuser (root) in Cygwin Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 13:16:36 +0000 Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: <6.1.0.6.0.20041107173348.04468150@pop.prospeed.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.66.66.126 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes > 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. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/