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Re: root's UID
- To: Tom Alsberg <alsbergt at netvision dot net dot il>
- Subject: Re: root's UID
- From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 00:34:57 +0200
- CC: Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- References: <00c501c00258$c77d7740$28a6003e@mellow>
Tom Alsberg wrote:
>
> Hi there...
> I would like to ask another question - is it possible to set the
> administrator's UID to 0 in Cygwin? I set up a user like this:
>
> root::500:513:,U-administrator,S-1-5-21-480600339-950411759-1606240830-500::
> /bin/bash
>
> Now the UID for root would be 500. I think that might cause
> incompatibilities with Unix, as in Unix root's UID is always 0, so if it is
> possible, what do I have to change?
Set uid to 0. As long as you are using ntsec that's ok.
For more information read the ntsec chapter in the online
documentation (http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/docs.html).
Corinna
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