From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 79782 invoked by alias); 8 May 2019 14:45:28 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 79757 invoked by uid 89); 8 May 2019 14:45:28 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,HTML_MESSAGE,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=evidence, permanently, H*c:alternative, life X-HELO: mail-qt1-f169.google.com Received: from mail-qt1-f169.google.com (HELO mail-qt1-f169.google.com) (209.85.160.169) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 08 May 2019 14:45:17 +0000 Received: by mail-qt1-f169.google.com with SMTP id a17so2511868qth.3 for ; Wed, 08 May 2019 07:45:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=from:subject:to:references:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :in-reply-to:content-language; bh=mbcO4pJJ94Fq5jdwDApYo7+FLH9Km5tE+/ohlBC1Wyk=; b=DzkaYtgsu3YJNvrMFP1hg0iQCOkDVGchXR7OjjN/ymLpJWH2TNWi2kjLnreeB9wzUO /nxPmIvxjwbenPVTYvCJNYL3A0rDAQv1nr9ZAAzp4VNyQIsun0mVPOhalmY6LFlKDJjT mietC3YWg+u3fp0O/QbR1/8SlNfIRa88APr8bv+GzGLO1FGLdajfUcarZMZ2StT0sgWQ Em3pNsDgkf5OcRrbkCLTUmmjNgfjvqT2nXPUKx23gSmP25NaMAOIqG45s6B+K3ps0w4z 8+cjD0HwoUoMqZkDjqzjznySmy4H8dmojZvmos3KqG5Zy74NhMauYIA5CmQbtIlHv1DB 5daQ== Return-Path: Received: from [192.168.1.114] (c-76-119-189-11.hsd1.ma.comcast.net. [76.119.189.11]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id k190sm8566782qkd.28.2019.05.08.07.45.08 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 08 May 2019 07:45:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Johmson Subject: Re: How to become root/root (0/0) To: cygwin@cygwin.com, Chris Johmson References: <17b2ff99-3c08-e1c6-2006-40b6465d94f9@t-online.de> Message-ID: <70e0f6bf-885b-fe89-27eb-f5678f850417@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 08 May 2019 14:45:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.6.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <17b2ff99-3c08-e1c6-2006-40b6465d94f9@t-online.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-05/txt/msg00068.txt.bz2 On 5/8/2019 9:50 AM, Henning wrote: > In order to not be misunderstood: the question is not about executing > a single command as a priviledged user. > > Instead, I'm asking how to get rid the annoying Unknown+User and > Unknown+Group  with six digits IDs permanently. > I'm assuming you want to be root in cyg terminal,yes?  Have you tried right click on cyg terminal an Run as admibisrator? -- Chris Johnson rchristopherjohnson@gmail.com Ex SysAdmin, now, writer /Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. /(Brendan Gill) -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple