root's UID

[Corinna Vinschen]

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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