X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 13:34:41 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: SYSTEM as root user Message-ID: <20090204123441.GA27859@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20090204095527.GB16129@calimero.vinschen.de> <486148.74478.qm@web95210.mail.in2.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <486148.74478.qm@web95210.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 Oh please, http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR On Feb 4 17:41, Jaspreet Singh wrote: > I was just gussing that if i made SYSTEM > user as root user then the problem with the permissions will go I assume you read the Cygwin user's guide about NT security. So you know you can tweak /etc/passwd and rename SYSTEM to root and see what happens. > away the only problem is that i cant ssh or anything else similar > by root user as it will be SYSTEM user and it does not have any password Public key authentication allows to logon as SYSTEM using ssh. Btw., nothing keeps you from patching webmin to recognize the SYSTEM user as root user as well. 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/