This doesnt work for me on Win2K. I have an account that is in the Administrators group. I copied the SYSTEM line and changed it to root: xdm fails the same way. I tried with the Administrator line too, no way.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ grep 544 /etc/passwd SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18:: root:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18:: Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544:: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ xdm Only root wants to run xdm > This is probably a bug in xdm. It's been discussed on this list > before. > Cygwin (or, rather, Windows) doesn't have a root user, but does have > users > with various permissions usually attributed to "root". On Win9x you > can > simply add a line for "root" to /etc/passwd (on WinNT/2k/XP you can > copy > the line for "system" and change the user name in that new line to > "root"). ===== Sylvain Petreolle (spetreolle_at_users_dot_sourceforge_dot_net) ICQ #170597259 Say NO to software patents Dites NON aux brevets logiciels "What if tomorrow the War could be over ?" Morpheus, in "Reloaded". ___________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en fran�ais ! Yahoo! Mail : http://fr.mail.yahoo.com
