On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:32:06AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > [snip] > > Another question is this: > > > > Should we actually depend on creating an NT account called "root"? > > This might be already in use by a bunch of users and sysadmins just > > for fun. Probably we do more often collide with that than we like. > > > > What about using a less common name like, say "cygwin_root" or > > "cygsrv_root" or so. > > > > Corinna > > IMO, whoever created the "root" account did it for the same purposes that > you propose to create it. In an interactive script, we could ask the user > if he wants "root" to be used in the normal Unix sense, and if so, set the > necessary properties (e.g., UID, SID, etc). If not (or the script is not > interactive), simply warn and revert to using the less common name.
IMHO the user name should be reliably identical. Always. That would simplify things. > One > problem I foresee is if the user has a "root" account with UID 0, but with > a wrong SID (e.g., the Administrator one). If you simply add a > "cygwin_root" with UID 0, there will be a UID clash. See the create-root script. It removes the root entry from /etc/passwd. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc.
