Re: cygwin: not administrator account?

[ping <songpingemail at gmail dot com>]

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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