[RFC] Globally creating a user and a group "root"

[Monte Hayward]

I've read this thread, but the "create root" scripts did not work.
cygcheck_svr.txt attached. Does someone have an idea what I might be
missing? Details below. Thanks kindly.

Problem:
Perl MCPAN -shell results in "Permission denied" messages.

My setup:
C:\cygwin\<all cygwin exes in subdirs>
C:\unix\home\monte\<all working files>

Solutions I tried:
1. Corrinna's script. I saved as create_root.bash and ran it.
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-11/txt00002.txt
I entered a new password for root, and the script edited the /etc/.
I then attempted
  >login
  login:root
  Password:<theNewPassword>
  Login incorrect

2. Created users "root" and "Administrator" in Windows XP Control Panel
"Users and Passwords". Logged into XP as "root" and >bash --login -i

3. cd /cygdrive/c/
   chown -Rv monte:Administrators ./unix

4. Edited /etc/passwd and /etc/groups manually.

5. Attempted to install HTML::Parser manually, outside CPAN.
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