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From: Olumide <50295 AT web DOT de>
Subject: Creating superuser (root) in Cygwin
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 18:25:33 +0000
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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



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