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: <4175C04B.1040500@ateb.com> Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 21:32:59 -0400 From: Reid Thompson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bruce Dobrin Cc: arnstein AT pobox DOT com, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Program to "talk" to serial port? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Oct 2004 01:30:50.0089 (UTC) FILETIME=[6E7C5590:01C4B644] X-IsSubscribed: yes Bruce Dobrin wrote: >I got it working with very helpful suggestions from list people last >week. You need to unpack on a linux box and change every reference to >reserve word "aux" to something else, next comment out the tweak the >code to disable the root checking, like this: > > > You can avoid having to alter the source code, other than the 'aux' references by: copying the /etc/passwd entry related to your login and changing the username to 'root' ala rthompso:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:500:513:U-xxxxxxxxxx\Administrator,S-1-5-21-xxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxx-500:/home/rthompso:/bin/bash root:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:0:513:U-xxxxxxxxxx\Administrator,S-1-5-21-xxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxx-500:/home/rthompso:/bin/bash then, from the cygwin prompt, login as root, the passwd will be the same for both entries. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/