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Re: root's UID
- To: Tom Alsberg <alsbergt at netvision dot net dot il>, Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: root's UID
- From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 00:46:57 +0200
- References: <00c501c00258$c77d7740$28a6003e@mellow> <3991DC91.73B7640A@cygnus.com>
- Reply-To: cygwin <cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com>
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> Tom Alsberg wrote:
> >
> > Hi there...
> > I would like to ask another question - is it possible to set the
> > administrator's UID to 0 in Cygwin? I set up a user like this:
> >
> > root::500:513:,U-administrator,S-1-5-21-480600339-950411759-1606240830-500::
> > /bin/bash
> >
> > Now the UID for root would be 500. I think that might cause
> > incompatibilities with Unix, as in Unix root's UID is always 0, so if it is
> > possible, what do I have to change?
>
> Set uid to 0. As long as you are using ntsec that's ok.
Uhmm, forgot that: ntsec _and_ the above S-1-XYZ field in pw_gecos.
> For more information read the ntsec chapter in the online
> documentation (http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/docs.html).
That's still valid.
Corinna
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