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 X-Originating-IP: [209.8.184.25] X-Originating-Email: [perros_2003 AT hotmail DOT com] From: "amores nolikeyjunk" To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: root user of cygwin Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 03:16:45 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 27 Mar 2003 03:16:45.0362 (UTC) FILETIME=[4BD34920:01C2F40F] Note-from-DJ: This may be spam On a traditional Unix system, a root user is one with uid=0 (uid is an abbreviation of user id). On an MS-Windows NT family system (NT, 2000, XP), an administrative account is one in the group Administrators. I'm no expert (rather a novice in many ways with cygwin), but I suspect that the upper concept maps probably to the lower concept on cygwin. The files /etc/passwd and /etc/group should reveal how the cygwin (Unix-style) user names and group names map back to the MS-Windows NT family SIDs. As MS-Windows implements many of the underlying operations, it is the SIDs in question that will govern much of what happens. (SID = security descriptor number -- actually I forget exactly what it abbreviates -- but it is a unique number on your machine identifying a user, or a group.) There are some documents about ntsec and these matters (although I myself have trouble following them). Hope that this tidbit above might possibly help a little. If opaque, it at least should provide keyword fodder for web searches :) Cordially, Perry _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail -- 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/