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* cygwin64 - installation problem - installed by administrator account
@ 2014-01-27  6:29 Flower, Martin
  2014-01-27 20:56 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread
From: Flower, Martin @ 2014-01-27  6:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cygwin

Please excuse my newby-ignorance, but I can't work out how to progress this without some help

Steps taken
- Downloaded setup-x86_64.exe
- Run setup-x86_64.exe using admflma (administrator account)
- Logged in as netflma (my usual windows login)
- Unable to start Cygwin from desktop icon 
  - unable to find mintty.exe
- Able to start Cygwin from command line
  - (C:\cygwin64\Cygwin.bat)
- Error message is Your group is currently "mkpasswd" .. ..
- mkpasswd -l  > /etc/passwd
  - bash: /etc/passwd: Permission denied
- drwxr-xr-x+ 1 admflma mkpasswd      0 22 jan 13.39 etc
- If I run the console as user admflma, then no errors are reported
- Log in to windows as admflma and start Cygwin from desktop icon
  - unable to find mintty.exe
- The objective is that any user on the computer can run Cygwin, but particularly netflma (user without admin rights)
- My guess is that the windows permissions are wrong for C:\cygwin64. I have attempted to give all rights to all users, but this has not solved the problem

/Martin


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2014-01-27  6:29 cygwin64 - installation problem - installed by administrator account Flower, Martin
2014-01-27 20:56 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2014-01-28  0:55   ` Mark Geisert
2014-02-04  7:43     ` Flower, Martin
2014-02-04 14:25       ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2014-02-05  9:38         ` Flower, Martin
2014-02-05 16:01           ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2014-02-05 17:28             ` A device driver as BLODA? Richard
2014-02-05 18:12               ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2014-02-06  6:42             ` cygwin64 - installation problem - installed by administrator account Flower, Martin
2014-02-06 14:49               ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2014-02-06 15:02                 ` Flower, Martin

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