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Re: loging in as root/superuser
- From: "Michael A Chase" <mchase at ix dot netcom dot com>
- To: "Paul Berg" <paul at spondo dot com>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 06:03:51 -0800
- Subject: Re: loging in as root/superuser
- References: <002e01c1c735$51a13cc0$4700000a@zephyr>
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Berg" <paul@spondo.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 22:40
Subject: loging in as root/superuser
> just got cygwin a couple of days ago and have been trying to login as
> root/superuser but can't get in.. what is the password set to when it is
> installed?
There is none; Cygwin is not a full OS, it runs within Windows. Please read
the documentation at http://cygwin.com/docs.html .
The simplest way to get started is to click on the icon created for you by
setup.exe.
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