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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Malachi_De_=C6lfweald?= <MalachiD AT jBASE DOT com>
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Subject: Problem with root account, login, X, KDE, etc -- none of the docu
	mentation seemed to work
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 11:45:09 -0700
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-----Original Message-----
From: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:vinschen AT cygnus DOT com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 11:50 PM
To: Malachi De ?lfweald
Subject: Re: Cygwin Question


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Thanks,
Corinna

On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 02:07:47PM -0700, Malachi De ?lfweald wrote:
> Corinna,
> 
> I realize you're busy -- so I will try to keep this short.
> 
> I have been reading through your docs (inetutils readme, login readme,
> website comments, forum comments, etc) and I just can't seem to get past
> this issue.
> I have tried everything I could find in any doc (yours or anothers), and
it
> just isn't working.
> 
> >From within cygwin, I type "login". No matter what user (or domain\user)
I
> use, it always fails.  I have followed the docs regarding the mkpasswd,
the
> mkgroup, environment variables....
> The reason I am trying to do this is because I installed XFree86 and KDE.
I
> am trying to run "kdm" (or even "xdm") and it just says that only root can
> run it. But I can't log in as root (or even myself).
> 
> Any possible help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thank you,
> Malachi

-- 
Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Developer
Red Hat, Inc.
mailto:vinschen AT cygnus DOT com

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