[RFC] Globally creating a user and a group "root"
Christopher Faylor
cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Tue Nov 11 15:52:00 GMT 2003
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:46:48PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>My idea is basically the following:
>
>- On all NT systems, create a user account called "root" which is
> member of the administrators group.
>[snip]
>Comments? If we agree to do as above (or similar), I would gladly
>appreciate, if I wouldn't have to do it alone.
I have always thought that it would be a good idea to implement a 'root'
user since so many UNIX programs rely on its availability. Anything you
can do to make this so will be worthwhile, even if it isn't a perfect
solution. IMO.
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