X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4AAE52A1.6000409@alice.it> Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:26:41 +0200 From: Angelo Graziosi User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cygwin Subject: Re: Reading what should not! Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Mark J. Reed wrote: > That makes no sense. "sudo" means "run as root". If you're already > root, there's no need for sudo, and most systems don't even allow root > to run the sudo command. I do not mean that 'root' need 'sudo'. > It sounds to me like your Fedora I do not have Fedora but Kubuntu (8.04 and 9.04). On Kubuntu the user created in the installation step, say 'pippo', is also 'root' in the sense that 'pippo' needs 'sudo' (or 'sudo su') for administrative usage. Cheers, Angelo. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple