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Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 07:30:26 -0500
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On 12/12/2014 8:32 PM, PolarStorm wrote:
> *** Warning: Adding user 'cyg_server' to local group 'root' failed!
> [...]
> Now, the reason for that is that there is no "root" group
> in Windows. Instead it's called "Administrators".

The group is obtained in line 2827 of 
/usr/share/csih/cygwin-service-installation-helper.sh:

admingroup=$(/usr/bin/mkgroup -l | /usr/bin/awk -F: '{if ( $2 == "S-1-5-32-544" 
) print $1;}')

On my system this yields "Administrators".  Apparently it yields "root" on your 
system.  Any idea why?

Ken

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