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 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Olumide <50295 AT web DOT de> Subject: Re: Creating superuser (root) in Cygwin Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 12:03:20 +0000 Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <6 DOT 1 DOT 0 DOT 6 DOT 0 DOT 20041107173348 DOT 04468150 AT pop DOT prospeed DOT net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet AT sea DOT gmane DOT org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.66.66.126 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) In-Reply-To: <6.1.0.6.0.20041107173348.04468150@pop.prospeed.net> X-IsSubscribed: yes > Based on the above statements, it seems you don't understand the differences > in the security model between Unix-based platforms and Windows NT-based > platforms. Why is this the answer that's always offered whenever someone asks this question? Some of us do know what we are talking about. Does anyone know how to create a superuser account in Cygwin please. Thanks, Olumide -- 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/