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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.
Thanks Robert.
I'm on WindowsXP and I'm trying to run sudo (http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/) what do you think I should do.
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