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Re: Xcdroast
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 10:05:28 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Xcdroast
- References: <20030823114508.77747.qmail@web10108.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
> Camron, are you still trying to make xcdroast work ? Seems you made it
> compile since you know about the root config issue :)
> It seems the only way we have for now is to generate a root
> configration file on another OS which has root user.
> [snip]
What exactly is the "root configuration" issue? If all that's needed is a
user named "root" with sufficient privileges (say, user context
switching), simply copy the entry for the SYSTEM user in your /etc/passwd
and change the user name to "root", e.g.
root:*:0:18:,S-1-5-18:/root:/bin/bash
SYSTEM:*:18:18:Local System,S-1-5-18::
As you can see, you can also change the UID of "root" to "0".
If it's some other issue, sharing the exact details would be helpful.
Igor
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