RE: Xcdroast

["Camron W. Fox" <cwfox at fujitsu dot com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski
> Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2003 04:05
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Xcdroast
>
>
> On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
>
> > Camron, are you still trying to make xcdroast work ? Seems you made it
> > compile since you know about the root config issue :)
> > It seems the only way we have for now is to generate a root
> > configration file on another OS which has root user.
> > [snip]
>
> What exactly is the "root configuration" issue?  If all that's needed is a
> user named "root" with sufficient privileges (say, user context
> switching), simply copy the entry for the SYSTEM user in your /etc/passwd
> and change the user name to "root", e.g.
>
> root:*:0:18:,S-1-5-18:/root:/bin/bash
> SYSTEM:*:18:18:Local System,S-1-5-18::
>
> As you can see, you can also change the UID of "root" to "0".
>
> If it's some other issue, sharing the exact details would be helpful.
> 	Igor

Igor,

	This may be a NUG question, but how do you "su - root"? I'm running XP Pro,
so my account (cwfox) is the administrator and I have no idea what the
password for root would be.

Best Regards,
Camron

Camron W. Fox
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