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Re: Creating superuser (root) in Cygwin
- From: Robert Pendell <shinji257 at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 08:09:46 -0500
- Subject: Re: Creating superuser (root) in Cygwin
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- Reply-to: Robert Pendell <shinji257 at gmail dot com>
You cannot just create a superuser in cygwin because cygwin is a
translation layer for UNIX applications. Cygwin is not actual UNIX
and there are limitations. Basically cygwin is using the host
machine's security model rather than unix's own native security model
and porting is not straight forward for some applications. It is even
worse when it comes to WIndows 9x than with Windows NT where as 9x has
no security model of its own (that I am aware about). The passwd and
group files are there for compatibility and allows some applications
to work. At least that is my understanding. I think sshd and such
use them.
On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 12:03:20 +0000, Olumide <50295@web.de> wrote:
>
> > 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
>
>
>
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