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From: "Michael A Chase" <mchase AT ix DOT netcom DOT com>
To: "Paul Berg" <paul AT spondo DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: loging in as root/superuser
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 06:03:51 -0800
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Berg" <paul AT spondo DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 22:40
Subject: loging in as root/superuser


> just got cygwin a couple of days ago and have been trying to login as
> root/superuser but can't get in.. what is the password set to when it is
> installed?

There is none; Cygwin is not a full OS, it runs within Windows.  Please read
the documentation at http://cygwin.com/docs.html .

The simplest way to get started is to click on the icon created for you by
setup.exe.
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