From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11750 invoked by alias); 28 Nov 2002 08:04:44 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 11742 invoked from network); 28 Nov 2002 08:04:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.libertysurf.net) (213.36.80.91) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 28 Nov 2002 08:04:43 -0000 Received: from tiscali.fr (192.168.10.9) by mail.libertysurf.net (6.5.026) id 3DDCB4A100087F1A for cygwin@cygwin.com; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 09:04:43 +0100 Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 01:47:00 -0000 Message-Id: Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?how_to_be_=22superuser=22_on_W98_=3F?= MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Sensitivity: 3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?joel_fernandez?=" To: "=?utf-8?Q?cygwin?=" X-XaM3-API-Version: 3.2 (B33 pl6) X-type: 0 X-SenderIP: 143.196.175.101 X-SW-Source: 2002-11/txt/msg01638.txt.bz2 Hello, Could somebody help me be THE superuser on my computer based on W98 ? the only line I have in /etc/passwd is : fernandez::500:544::/home/fernandez:/bin/bash and in /etc/group : unknown::544: So, I can access, for example, to /usr/lib, but I can't see this directory = when I launch "ls /" Which means I only have user permissions. Thanks for aswering and sorry for the noise, if you think it is. bye jo ------------- SPECIAL ADSL L'ADSL Tiscali est =E0 partir de 15,95 EUR/mois ! Plus modem ADSL et frais = d'activation gratuits ! Pour profiter de cette offre, cliquez ici: http://register.tiscali.fr/adsl/ Offre soumise =E0 conditions. -- 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/