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Re: How can I create root user?
- From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: "MORENO CANTADOR, PATRICIA" <100033627 at alumnos dot uc3m dot es>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 08:29:54 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: How can I create root user?
- References: <20060807111919.ouu5fmdvb7s4go4w@webcartero02.uc3m.es>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, MORENO CANTADOR, PATRICIA wrote:
> I'm new at using cygwin. I need to have user with root privileges to
> execute a daemon, but I have discovered I don't have root user, however
> I do have a group called root. There isn't any user assigned to this
> group, so I don't really have any user with those privileges. I have a
> user called "administrador" and I have also a group called
> "administradores" with ID 544, but the user "administrador" haven't this
> ID assigned, it have ID 513. How can I create a root user or something
> similar to have root privileges to execute the daemon?
Patricia,
Before asking how you can create a root user, why not tell us what you're
trying to achieve (i.e., which daemon you want to execute and why you
think it needs a root user).
Igor
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