From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26903 invoked by alias); 14 Sep 2009 15:00:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 26895 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Sep 2009 15:00:34 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SARE_MSGID_LONG40,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-vw0-f202.google.com (HELO mail-vw0-f202.google.com) (209.85.212.202) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:00:29 +0000 Received: by vws40 with SMTP id 40so1810668vws.18 for ; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:00:28 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.108.42 with SMTP id d42mr8310119vcp.88.1252940427219; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:00:27 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4AAE52A1.6000409@alice.it> References: <4AAE52A1.6000409@alice.it> Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:00:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Reading what should not! From: "Mark J. Reed" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 X-SW-Source: 2009-09/txt/msg00300.txt.bz2 On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > I do not have Fedora but Kubuntu (8.04 and 9.04). On Kubuntu the user > created in the installation step, say 'pippo', is also 'root' in the sense > that 'pippo' needs 'sudo' (or 'sudo su') for administrative usage. OK, then, big difference. 'pippo' is not root, pippo is able to do things as root when needed. Administrative users on Windows are treated as equivalent to root by Cygwin. If you're saying that admin users should have to use sudo or equivalent to gain elevated access in Cygwin, then that's a feature request. Does it match what Windows does? Outside of UAC in Vista I'm unaware of Administrators having to do anything to activate their privileges. -- Mark J. Reed -- 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