Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/05/03/01:55:20
On Thu, 02 May 2002 23:44:50 -0500 Dave Bodenstab <imdave1 AT mindspring DOT com> wrote:
> David Starks-Browning wrote:
> >
> > This has been discussed on the mailing list before, search the
> > archives. I noticed it with cygwin-1.3.10 on NT4, and found that
> > enabling ntsec solved the problem for me. But there are lots of
> > things to check, like the correctness of your /etc/passwd and
> > /etc/group files, rights given to the inetd service account,
> > execute permissions on the applications and cygwin1.dll, ...
> >
> > It's a mystery, to me, why it fails without ntsec but works with
> > ntsec, all other things being the same. But I've stopped worrying
> > about it, now that I use ntsec.
> I'm totally new to nt4, so could I ask what thingy I click and
> what to change to enable this ntsec thing? The previous poster
> mentioned that he'd been able to use the control panel, but I see
> no cygwin icon when I bring up the control panel... perhaps he's
> not using nt. Is the registry thing what I need to change? If so,
> how does one change it?
>
> If this stuff is discussed in a beginners guide to nt, or a help
> file that I just need to read, then a pointer would be very welcome.
It would be useful to scan the documentation at http://cygwin.com/ . Some
of your questions are answered there. For this, look for the CYGWIN
environment variable.
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