Re: superuser in win9x?
Actually on my WinME box, I set up my normal
user as root all the time. (so, instead of having
a userid of dood, I only had a userid of root.
Unfortunately, I have upgraded my Windows
machines to XP (Home/Pro), and I don't have
my old setup to be able to help you out too much.
One other thing though. You must also modify your
/etc/group, and create a root:0 entry.
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 14:14:13 +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
>
>Hello,
>
>I'm trying to install dpkg on a win98-cygwin system. that action
>requires a superuser with UID 0 but looks like it doesn't exist
>in such environment.
>
>My /etc/passwd looks like this:
>
>root::0:0::/root:/bin/bash
>dood::500:504::/home/dood:/bin/bash
>
>when i run 'login' and respond 'root' at the prompt, it spawns a shell
>but this is owned by normal user, with UID 500.
>
>regards,
>
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