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Re: [1.7] Setup.exe default ownership of files in fresh install [Admin:None?]
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 13:07:42 +0200
- Subject: Re: [1.7] Setup.exe default ownership of files in fresh install [Admin:None?]
- References: <4A056A0F.7060207@physchem.ox.ac.uk>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On May 9 12:33, Chris Rodgers wrote:
> 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.
So you removed all the carefully crafted POSIX permissions. Oh well.
> 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?
I applied a patch to setup which allows all admins to replace files in a
given installation without falling back to non-POSIX permissions. I
just uploaded setup version 2.621 to http://cygwin.com/setup-1.7.exe
which contains that patch.
Corinna
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