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From: cygzx AT trodman DOT com (Tom Rodman)
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Subject: best practice?: make admin user "root", edit passwd to make uid 0
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 08:59:24 -0600
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I searched the FAQ and a portion of my cygwin email archives. Quite a
few posts show "ls -l" output w/either a cygwin user or group "root".

"rsync -a" was not preserving ownership for me.  
If I create an account "root" and edit /etc/passwd to make the uid "0",
rsync *does* preserve ownership.

So what is the "cygwin best practice", how about this?:

  For each cygwin installation, create a local account named "root",
  place this account in the windows administrators group, and change
  /etc/passwd so that the uid for this account is "0". (I do not always
  have the password for the windows "administrator" account.)

  Should the group name "Administrators" in /etc/group be swapped out
  with "root" - I got this idea from a post or two in the cygwin mailing list.

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thanks
Tom Rodman

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