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From: Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty <cygwin@hamishmb.com>
To: The Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Smartctl issues in Cygwin with elevated terminal
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2022 12:46:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c914e0d5-bf90-a262-2970-8a72eb382bf3@hamishmb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <228fb395-f742-5d99-d108-f3394129d97e@hamishmb.com>

On 13/09/2022 10:11, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote:

Just adding a note to say this seems to only occur on Windows 10 and 11.

> Hi there,
> 
> I recently noticed that smartctl only works when the Cygwin Terminal 
> isn't run as administrator - the opposite way round to Linux where you 
> need superuser privileges to access the disk.
> 
> With Administrator privileges on Windows 11, I get:
> 
> "Read Device Identity Failure Input/Output error"
> 
> But it continues to work fine as a normal user.
> 
> Does anyone know why? In my case, this actually matters because I'm not 
> sure how to elevate and/or drop privileges in Cygwin, as sudo doesn't 
> work due to it not being Unixy underneath. I'll be happy to try and 
> debug this and provide extra details if needed, but I'm not sure what to 
> do next on this one.
> 
> Cheers,
> Hamish
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-13 11:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-13  9:11 Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
2022-09-13 11:46 ` Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty [this message]
2022-09-13 17:23 ` Christian Franke
2022-09-26 14:26   ` Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty

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