system account files mystery

dsacks dennis@calico-consulting.com
Thu Nov 30 19:58:00 GMT 2006


Hi,

I've used cygwin before, but for the first time I did mkpasswd and mkgroup
and got it so that when go to a cygwin prompt, my id actually shows as my
windows username and I end up in /home/myusername. Woohoo.

wait, if I try to vi /etc/sshd_config now I cannot write it, because it is
owned by SYSTEM and has restrictive rights.

How do I edit system files now? I don't really grok the permission world in
cygwin and how unixy permissions and users map to windows. 

Another thing worth mentioning, I am running windows xp sp2 and it is part
of a domain. I am a domain user. I am also a member of Administrators on the
computer.

Help?
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