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Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 01:01:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: chuk mike <mcchuk AT hotmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: root user in cygwin
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On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, chuk mike wrote:

> I just down load cygwin in to my win2000 platform. It works fin but
> could not find anyway to have root user. It is different form the
> standard linux which start in root user and allow root user to create
> user accout. I have problem in install some package into cygwin by "sh"
> command. which reqired to be execute in root user level. Could you have
> some instruction for me to create root user in cygwin ?
>
> regards
> mike

Mike,

A Google search for "root user" restricted to cygwin.com returned some
relevant hits:
<http://www.google.com/search?q=%22root+user%22+site%3Acygwin.com>

HTH,
	Igor
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