lost of admin right

lost of admin right

[Valerio Messina]

hi,
I have a company PC where I was admin and installed Cygwin in a non 
supported path:
D:\Program Files (x86)\cygwin64
/cygdrive/d/Program Files (x86)/cygwin64
and worked like a sharm for years, with a quite complex env.

Now admin right was revoked to me, and the update via setup.exe cannot 
proceed.
I can ask to the company admin to update the distribution every time, 
but this is impractical.

1) Do you know if re-installing to supported path something like:
D:\ProgramFiles\cygwin64
/cygdrive/d/ProgramFiles/cygwin64
let me update the distro without admin right?

I made a backup of the about 800 installed packages with:
$ cygcheck -c -d | cut -d' ' -f1 | tail -n+3 > installedPackages2021-12.txt
I never tryed to restore the backup with:
$ setup -M -P package1,package2, ...

2) Someone know if that work well ?

thank you,
-- 
Valerio

Re: lost of admin right

[Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan]

Hi Valerio,

Have you tried using the "-B" command line option when running
setup-x86_64.exe ?

Thank you.

On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 9:33 PM Valerio Messina via Cygwin <
cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:

> hi,
> I have a company PC where I was admin and installed Cygwin in a non
> supported path:
> D:\Program Files (x86)\cygwin64
> /cygdrive/d/Program Files (x86)/cygwin64
> and worked like a sharm for years, with a quite complex env.
>
> Now admin right was revoked to me, and the update via setup.exe cannot
> proceed.
> I can ask to the company admin to update the distribution every time,
> but this is impractical.
>
> 1) Do you know if re-installing to supported path something like:
> D:\ProgramFiles\cygwin64
> /cygdrive/d/ProgramFiles/cygwin64
> let me update the distro without admin right?
>
> I made a backup of the about 800 installed packages with:
> $ cygcheck -c -d | cut -d' ' -f1 | tail -n+3 > installedPackages2021-12.txt
> I never tryed to restore the backup with:
> $ setup -M -P package1,package2, ...
>
> 2) Someone know if that work well ?
>
> thank you,
> --
> Valerio
>
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RE: lost of admin right

[david]

You need --no-admin option to setup if you don't have administrative
privileges, if that's all you're after.

If you are asking how to modify/update your existing installation that was
installed as administrator, that might be impossible, if you no longer have
privileges there.

Regards,
David

-----Original Message-----
From: Cygwin <cygwin-bounces+david=starks-browning.com@cygwin.com> On Behalf
Of Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan
Sent: 14 December 2021 14:10
To: efa@iol.it
Cc: The Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: lost of admin right

Hi Valerio,

Have you tried using the "-B" command line option when running
setup-x86_64.exe ?

Thank you.

On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 9:33 PM Valerio Messina via Cygwin <
cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:

> hi,
> I have a company PC where I was admin and installed Cygwin in a non 
> supported path:
> D:\Program Files (x86)\cygwin64
> /cygdrive/d/Program Files (x86)/cygwin64 and worked like a sharm for 
> years, with a quite complex env.
>
> Now admin right was revoked to me, and the update via setup.exe cannot 
> proceed.
> I can ask to the company admin to update the distribution every time, 
> but this is impractical.
>
> 1) Do you know if re-installing to supported path something like:
> D:\ProgramFiles\cygwin64
> /cygdrive/d/ProgramFiles/cygwin64
> let me update the distro without admin right?
>
> I made a backup of the about 800 installed packages with:
> $ cygcheck -c -d | cut -d' ' -f1 | tail -n+3 > 
> installedPackages2021-12.txt I never tryed to restore the backup with:
> $ setup -M -P package1,package2, ...
>
> 2) Someone know if that work well ?
>
> thank you,
> --
> Valerio
>
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Re: lost of admin right

[Valerio Messina]

hi,
the simple add of -B (--no-admin) work, also keeping the installation to 
the previous path.

Update work, and shell start as always.
Even the update from 3.2.0 to 3.3.3 work, for both 64 and 32 installations.

Thank you,
Valerio



On 12/14/21 5:47 PM, david@starks-browning.com wrote:
> You need --no-admin option to setup if you don't have administrative
> privileges, if that's all you're after.
> 
> If you are asking how to modify/update your existing installation that was
> installed as administrator, that might be impossible, if you no longer have
> privileges there.
> 
> Regards,
> David
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cygwin <cygwin-bounces+david=starks-browning.com@cygwin.com> On Behalf
> Of Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan
> Sent: 14 December 2021 14:10
> To: efa@iol.it
> Cc: The Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin@cygwin.com>
> Subject: Re: lost of admin right
> 
> Hi Valerio,
> 
> Have you tried using the "-B" command line option when running
> setup-x86_64.exe ?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 9:33 PM Valerio Messina via Cygwin <
> cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> 
>> hi,
>> I have a company PC where I was admin and installed Cygwin in a non
>> supported path:
>> D:\Program Files (x86)\cygwin64
>> /cygdrive/d/Program Files (x86)/cygwin64 and worked like a sharm for
>> years, with a quite complex env.
>>
>> Now admin right was revoked to me, and the update via setup.exe cannot
>> proceed.
>> I can ask to the company admin to update the distribution every time,
>> but this is impractical.
>>
>> 1) Do you know if re-installing to supported path something like:
>> D:\ProgramFiles\cygwin64
>> /cygdrive/d/ProgramFiles/cygwin64
>> let me update the distro without admin right?
>>
>> I made a backup of the about 800 installed packages with:
>> $ cygcheck -c -d | cut -d' ' -f1 | tail -n+3 >
>> installedPackages2021-12.txt I never tryed to restore the backup with:
>> $ setup -M -P package1,package2, ...
>>
>> 2) Someone know if that work well ?
>>
>> thank you,
>> --
>> Valerio
>>
>> --
>> Problem reports:      https://cygwin.com/problems.html
>> FAQ:                  https://cygwin.com/faq/
>> Documentation:        https://cygwin.com/docs.html
>> Unsubscribe info:     https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
>>
> 
> 
> --
> Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan
> 


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Valerio

Re: lost of admin right

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, Valerio Messina via Cygwin!

> I have a company PC where I was admin and installed Cygwin in a non
> supported path:
> D:\Program Files (x86)\cygwin64
> /cygdrive/d/Program Files (x86)/cygwin64
> and worked like a sharm for years, with a quite complex env.

> Now admin right was revoked to me, and the update via setup.exe cannot 
> proceed.
> I can ask to the company admin to update the distribution every time, 
> but this is impractical.

Ask your administrator to move entire installation to a less guarded directory
(s.a. C:\Cygwin64 ) and assign you write permissions to the tree.
Then use `setup.exe --no-admin` switch to upgrade your installation (specify
correct path of a new installation's location).

> 1) Do you know if re-installing to supported path something like:
> D:\ProgramFiles\cygwin64
> /cygdrive/d/ProgramFiles/cygwin64
> let me update the distro without admin right?

Could just move entire directory. Safe within the same working environment.

> I made a backup of the about 800 installed packages with:
> $ cygcheck -c -d | cut -d' ' -f1 | tail -n+3 > installedPackages2021-12.txt
> I never tryed to restore the backup with:
> $ setup -M -P package1,package2, ...

> 2) Someone know if that work well ?

With some obvious reservations, the most simple solution will work just fine.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Tuesday, December 14, 2021 20:47:05

Sorry for my terrible english...