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Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 00:34:57 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen AT cygnus DOT com>
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To: Tom Alsberg <alsbergt AT netvision DOT net DOT il>
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Subject: Re: root's UID
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Tom Alsberg wrote:
> 
>   Hi there...
>   I would like to ask another question - is it possible to set the
> administrator's UID to 0 in Cygwin? I set up a user like this:
> 
> root::500:513:,U-administrator,S-1-5-21-480600339-950411759-1606240830-500::
> /bin/bash
> 
>   Now the UID for root would be 500. I think that might cause
> incompatibilities with Unix, as in Unix root's UID is always 0, so if it is
> possible, what do I have to change?

Set uid to 0. As long as you are using ntsec that's ok.

For more information read the ntsec chapter in the online
documentation (http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/docs.html).

Corinna

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