Re: Root Privileges related

2011-03-28 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/28/2011 4:23 PM, world peace wrote: Hi Larry, Thank you for your interest in my question first of all. When i try to do make or make install, the installer tries to write files to a location where I do not have permission and so it reports error and exits. When i check for permissions usi

Re: Root Privileges related

2011-03-28 Thread world peace
Hi Larry, Thank you for your interest in my question first of all. When i try to do make or make install, the installer tries to write files to a location where I do not have permission and so it reports error and exits. When i check for permissions using ls -l, all the files and folders have no

Re: Root Privileges related

2011-03-28 Thread world peace
Hi Larry, Thank you for your interest in my question first of all. When i try to do make or make install, the installer tries to write files to a location where I do not have permission and so it reports error and exits. When i check for permissions using ls -l, all the files and folders have no

Re: Root Privileges related

2011-03-28 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2011-03-28 18:19Z, world peace wrote: > Ques: I am trying to install some programs (meant for linux platform) > on cygwin. The instructions prompt me to do make, make install, > configure etc. The only problem is I don't know how to become root http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.

Re: Root Privileges related

2011-03-28 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/28/2011 2:19 PM, world peace wrote: Hi All, this question is from a non-expert, basically using cygwin as a utility for day to day work. Ques: I am trying to install some programs (meant for linux platform) on cygwin. The instructions prompt me to do make, make install, configure etc. The o

Root Privileges related

2011-03-28 Thread world peace
Hi All, this question is from a non-expert, basically using cygwin as a utility for day to day work. Ques: I am trying to install some programs (meant for linux platform) on cygwin. The instructions prompt me to do make, make install, configure etc. The only problem is I don't know how to become r

Re: root privileges

2007-11-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
6-1008:/home/jorge:/bin/bash > >in /etc/group (for the 2nd and 3rd tries above, I added the following line): > root:S-1-5-32-544:0: > >Finally, I even tried running the program from a "SYSTEM-owned shell", to >no avail. > >Thanks in advance for any pointers. Chee

Re: root privileges

2007-11-29 Thread Jorge Marques Pelizzoni
EM-owned shell", to no avail. Thanks in advance for any pointers. Cheers, Jorge. Jorge Marques Pelizzoni escreveu: > > Hi all! > > I am developing a program that requires root privileges to run (e.g. it > calls ioctl to set communication lines at a serial port). Even though I am

root privileges

2007-11-29 Thread Jorge Marques Pelizzoni
Hi all! I am developing a program that requires root privileges to run (e.g. it calls ioctl to set communication lines at a serial port). Even though I am an administrator of my WinXP workstation, cygwin keeps giving me EPERM. Ok, I've read: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#