[1.7] Setup.exe default ownership of files in fresh install [Admin:None?]
Chris Rodgers
rodgers@physchem.ox.ac.uk
Sat May 9 11:33:00 GMT 2009
Dear List,
I have two admin accounts on a Windows XP Pro machine. I installed
Cygwin 1.7 beta using Admin1 initially. This morning, I tried to update
some packages from account Admin2.
I kept getting errors about not being able to update files because they
were "in use".
It turned out that I just needed to blow away all the permissions from
the cygwin tree and add an inheritable ACL for the Administrators group.
But - as the other posters have said, shouldn't setup just default to
installing as "Administrators" rather than a specific admin user so that
it is possible to share the cygwin tree between users?
Just my two pence.
Chris.
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