Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/09/27/10:27:50
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On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 00:19, Dan Vasaru wrote:
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> > On the user mount in HKLM idea, it's a no-goer. Normal users don't
> > have write access to most of HKLM, on any partly-secure install
> > of NT (which is where the original posters issue arose).
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> I may be wrong, but couldn't setup, or whoever creates the original
> HKLM/../cygwin key, set up the security attributes such that any
> authenticated user may write there ?
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> > Secondly, there is a much more straightforward solution
> > for the poster:
> > use something like
> > mount $USERPROFILE$CYGHOME /home/$USER
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> You mean creating permanent system mounts while running as administrator.=
We
> tried that, and hit some upper mount limit in cygwin1.dll. Try it yoursel=
f:
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> ~>for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24=
25
> 26; do mount h: /home/user$i; done
Yes, it's limited to 30. See shared_info.h in the source.
This affects BOTH user and system mounts.
As a workaround you can hook the exiting of the login shell to unmount
the path when you're finished.
Hope that helps,
Rob
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