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Re: Running as root

From: VÃclav Haisman <V dot Haisman at sh dot cvut dot cz>
To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 14:12:24 +0200
Subject: Re: Running as root
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Stephen Grant Brown wrote, On 17.6.2006 13:21:
> Hi There
> I would like to run programs as root, which means the userid and group
> need to be set to 0, and the name needs to = root.
> I have looked through the ntsec.html document and I afraid it is too
> complicated for me to understand.
> Can somebody explain how to do this to me in a more simplified format
> please?
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> Yours Sincerely Stephen Grant Brown.
There is no root in Cygwin IIRC. Use your Windows' administrator account
instead.

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VH

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