This is the mail archive of the
cygwin
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Creating superuser (root) in Cygwin
- From: Olumide <50295 at web dot de>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 18:25:33 +0000
- Subject: Creating superuser (root) in Cygwin
Hi,
I need to create or access a superuser account in Cygwin.
The problem is that I'm trying to compile sudo
(http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/) and unfortunately, I need superuser
privilegdes to install or run the program, or even edit its
configuration files.
Again, I'm writing a multithreaded program that needs to raise the
priority of certain threads. The thread library function that does this
again requires superuser priviledges to run.
These are just two of the problems I've encountered lately. I really
need to create a root account in Cygwin.
Thanks
Olumide
--
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/