cygwin: not administrator account?

cygwin: not administrator account?

[ping]

experts:
I run into an account priviledge issue here when I tried to setup ssh 
server in cygwin.
I don't remember I ever ran into this previously in winXP.
so this is in my win7 HE.
looks I can't ping anything and can't proceed with sshd activation.
but from control panel I'm sure I'm administrator (I'm the only user  in 
this new laptop so far).
please advice. I'm not sure how I can work with it w/o an ssh server ...
thanks in advance.

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$ ping 127.0.0.1
ping: socket: Operation not permitted

ping@ping-new-laptop ~
$ ssh-host-config

*** Warning: Running this script typically requires administrator 
privileges!
*** Warning: However, it seems your account does not have these privileges.
*** Warning: Here's the list of groups in your user token:

     None
     Users

*** Warning: This usually means you're running this script from a non-admin
*** Warning: desktop session, or in a non-elevated shell under UAC control.

*** Warning: Make sure you have the appropriate privileges right now,
*** Warning: otherwise parts of this script will probably fail!

*** Query: Are you sure you want to continue?  (Say "no" if you're not sure
*** Query: you have the required privileges) (yes/no)

ping@ping-new-laptop ~
$ su
su: user root does not exist

ping@ping-new-laptop ~
$ sudo
-bash: sudo: command not found


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Re: cygwin: not administrator account?

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 6/28/2012 5:06 PM, ping wrote:
> experts:
> I run into an account priviledge issue here when I tried to setup ssh server
> in cygwin.
> I don't remember I ever ran into this previously in winXP.
> so this is in my win7 HE.
> looks I can't ping anything and can't proceed with sshd activation.
> but from control panel I'm sure I'm administrator (I'm the only user in this
> new laptop so far).

If your account has administrator privileges, you need to say you want to
use them for the program you're running.  To do this, find the "Cygwin
Terminal" in your Start Menu and right click on it.  Pick
"Run as administrator".  Proceed as before.

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Larry

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Re: cygwin: not administrator account?

[ping]

oh that's my bad.
yes that works, thanks Larry!

regards
ping

On 06/28/2012 05:51 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> On 6/28/2012 5:06 PM, ping wrote:
>> experts:
>> I run into an account priviledge issue here when I tried to setup ssh
>> server
>> in cygwin.
>> I don't remember I ever ran into this previously in winXP.
>> so this is in my win7 HE.
>> looks I can't ping anything and can't proceed with sshd activation.
>> but from control panel I'm sure I'm administrator (I'm the only user
>> in this
>> new laptop so far).
>
> If your account has administrator privileges, you need to say you want to
> use them for the program you're running.  To do this, find the "Cygwin
> Terminal" in your Start Menu and right click on it.  Pick
> "Run as administrator".  Proceed as before.
>


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