At 07:36 AM 2/18/2005, you wrote:
My company places extreme limits on how much "root" acccess I have to
my computer. Is there anyway to install cygwin without such access?
When I attempt to run "setup.exe" I get the following message:
This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in e
At 05:20 PM 2/16/2005, you wrote:
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Evan Platt wrote:
> This is XP home, which I don't believe has folder ownership?
It does. What it doesn't have is the UI dialog to change it.
One way to change the ownership would be Cygwin's "chown" program, bu
At 03:47 PM 2/16/2005, you wrote:
If your getting access denied then you're not the owner.
Only one user on this system, and I'm the one who installed it...
What do you see when you open an Explorer, right click on the Cygwin
folder, select Properties. Do you see a Security tab.
Nope, I have Gen
At 02:34 PM 2/16/2005, you wrote:
Try configuring Cygwin on the server end to use the "nontsec" option.
This causes new files to be created with inherited NT permissions as
opposed to the "Unix-Like" permissions. I know this has solved a lot of
problems for our team.
Just set or modify the global
At 02:20 PM 2/16/2005, you wrote:
My guess is that it's a Windows NTFS permissions issue. Assuming you want to
blow away the entire C:\cygwin tree and start again fresh: log on as
Administrator, take ownership recursively of the entire tree, and reset
permissions recursively of the entire tree.
Ok, if I missed this somehow via my google, FAQ, and deja search, forgive
me and point me in the right direction. I have the following directories
that won't delete (all under \Cygwin):
\bin
\etc
\home
\lib
\sendmail
\tmp
\usr
A number of these have subdirectories, all have files.
I rebooted int
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