X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 10:55:27 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: SYSTEM as root user Message-ID: <20090204095527.GB16129@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <408489.45450.qm@web95216.mail.in2.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <408489.45450.qm@web95216.mail.in2.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 Feb 4 00:18, Jaspreet Singh wrote: > hi, > > How about if i make SYSTEM user as root in cygwin and > Administrators > Group as root Group, even install Cygwin 1.7 by SYSTEM > user, Does it > effect on Cygwin working in any way. I don't understand exactly what you're up to. There's no really good reason to install Cygwin as SYSTEM user. You can install it just using any administrative account, that should lead to the most servicable results. The "there's only one single godlike admin account called root" concept of Unix is only partly imposable on Windows. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/