On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
> This doesnt work for me on Win2K.
> I have an account that is in the Administrators group.
> I copied the SYSTEM line and changed it to root: xdm fails the same
> way.
> I tried with the Administrator line too, no way.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~
> $ grep 544 /etc/passwd
> SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18::
> root:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18::
> Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544::
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~
> $ xdm
> Only root wants to run xdm
>
> > This is probably a bug in xdm. It's been discussed on this list
> > before. Cygwin (or, rather, Windows) doesn't have a root user, but
> > does have users with various permissions usually attributed to "root".
> > On Win9x you can simply add a line for "root" to /etc/passwd (on
> > WinNT/2k/XP you can copy the line for "system" and change the user
> > name in that new line to "root").
Erm, yes. I forgot that some programs check for root by checking whether
UID==0. You might need to also change the UID (3rd field) to 0. If xdm
will try to do a seteuid(), use the SYSTEM line as your template (to have
the same SID).
Igor
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