X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 08:29:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: "MORENO CANTADOR, PATRICIA" <100033627@alumnos.uc3m.es> cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: How can I create root user? In-Reply-To: <20060807111919.ouu5fmdvb7s4go4w@webcartero02.uc3m.es> Message-ID: References: <20060807111919.ouu5fmdvb7s4go4w@webcartero02.uc3m.es> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, MORENO CANTADOR, PATRICIA wrote: > I'm new at using cygwin. I need to have user with root privileges to > execute a daemon, but I have discovered I don't have root user, however > I do have a group called root. There isn't any user assigned to this > group, so I don't really have any user with those privileges. I have a > user called "administrador" and I have also a group called > "administradores" with ID 544, but the user "administrador" haven't this > ID assigned, it have ID 513. How can I create a root user or something > similar to have root privileges to execute the daemon? Patricia, Before asking how you can create a root user, why not tell us what you're trying to achieve (i.e., which daemon you want to execute and why you think it needs a root user). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- 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/