> On the user mount in HKLM idea, it's a no-goer. Normal users don't > have write access to most of HKLM, on any partly-secure install > of NT (which is where the original posters issue arose).
I may be wrong, but couldn't setup, or whoever creates the original HKLM/../cygwin key, set up the security attributes such that any authenticated user may write there ? > Secondly, there is a much more straightforward solution > for the poster: > use something like > mount $USERPROFILE$CYGHOME /home/$USER You mean creating permanent system mounts while running as administrator. We tried that, and hit some upper mount limit in cygwin1.dll. Try it yourself: ~>for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26; do mount h: /home/user$i; done Dan. -- 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/
