How to run Hadoop on Cygwin with proper credentials to enable setting file permissions, etc.?

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 3/14/2012 9:32 AM, James Adams wrote:
> I cannot change the permissions on files when I run Hadoop in Cygwin:
>
>      java.io.IOException: Failed to set permissions of path:
> \tmp\hadoop-James\mapred\staging\James-1143336710\.staging to 0700
>
>> From what I've gathered you can't really run Cygwin as root since
> Windows doesn't really have a notion of root (reference:
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-01/msg00338.html), and I've tried to
> run Cygwin as the Administrator user but this option isn't available
> to me when I right click on the Cygwin shortcut in Windows XP (I've
> also tried changing the Cygwin shortcut's properties to allow me to
> run as another user but that option is disabled).
>
> Can anyone advise me as to how I can get past this issue?  Thanks in
> advance for your help.

I'm guessing you're not a member of the Administrators group then.

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Larry

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