Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <002a01c21d2f$fc5eb9d0$0dcbfea9@emcbfsserv> From: "Elfyn McBratney" To: "Cygwin ML" Subject: Fw: failure notice Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 17:39:04 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Hi, There isn't a root user for cygwin unless you've edited your /etc/passwd = file and changed a login to root. Thus no default password. If you have = changed the login from say Administrator to root then the so-called = 'root' password would be your administartor's password. Elfyn McBratney elfyn AT exposure DOT org DOT uk -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/