> You recently applied a patch to the Cygwin tree regarding Windows > permissions when logging in via SSH with PubKey authentication (see > the link below). Another user in the thread confirmed it worked in > the latest snapshot. I download the latest cygwin-inst tar ball and > replaced the existing installed files on a machine that is suffering > from the same issue (with the ones from the archive). After rebooting > the machine the issue still persisted though :-( (trying to install > an MSI as administrator, works with password auth, not with pub key).
Please log in with pubkey and run /cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/whoami /all Then post the results here. That will show which privileges your account has, and whether they're enabled. -- 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