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Re: [RFC] Globally creating a user and a group "root"


On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 05:21:21PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> What about using a less common name like, say "cygwin_root" or
> "cygsrv_root" or so.

... which would get the name "root" in /etc/passwd, nevertheless,
like this:

root:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:0:0:Cygwin root account,U-WINBOX\cygwin_root,S-1-5-21-436374069-1035525445-725345543-1234:/home/root:/bin/false

Corinna

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