> On a traditional Unix system, a root user is one with uid=0 > (uid is an abbreviation of user id). > > On an MS-Windows NT family system (NT, 2000, XP), an administrative > account is one in the group Administrators. > > I'm no expert (rather a novice in many ways with cygwin), but > I suspect that the upper concept maps probably to the lower > concept on cygwin. > > The files /etc/passwd and /etc/group should reveal how the > cygwin (Unix-style) user names and group names map back > to the MS-Windows NT family SIDs. As MS-Windows implements > many of the underlying operations, it is the SIDs in > question that will govern much of what happens. > (SID = security descriptor number -- actually I forget > exactly what it abbreviates -- but it is a unique > number on your machine identifying a user, or a group.) > > There are some documents about ntsec and these matters > (although I myself have trouble following them).
Documentation is available on the Cygwin home page <http://cygwin.com/>. And also if you have installed the cygwin-doc package. FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ User's Guide: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/cygwin-ug-net.html API Referrence: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-api/cygwin-api.html Oh, and if you get lost by all of the AFAEOTML* (Acronyms Found Alomst Everywhere On The Mailing Lists :::-): Acronyms: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/ > Hope that this tidbit above might possibly help a little. > If opaque, it at least should provide keyword fodder for > web searches :) * Don't worry, Igor ;-) Regards, Elfyn McBratney [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.exposure.org.uk -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
