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Date: | Wed, 8 Oct 2003 19:45:46 -0400 |
From: | "Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre DOT humblet AT ieee DOT org> |
To: | cygwin AT cygwin DOT com |
Subject: | Re: messed up user permissions from w2k terminal session |
Message-ID: | <20031008234545.GA88351@hpn5170x> |
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On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 04:48:43PM -0400, James D Below wrote: > HI everyone, > > I'm not sure how I did it but I messed up my user permissions or local > policy settings. Now whenever I run any cygwin app (bash.exe, wc.exe, > rxvt.exe) from a w2k terminal session and logged in as a user, I see the > following error: > > **** CreateFileMapping, Win32 error 5. Terminating. > > I'm running Windows 2000 SP4 and CYGWIN = binmode tty ntsec This problem has now been explained with James' help and this message is to close the thread. It turns out that on some recent Windows systems a special privilege, "create global objects", is required to run Cygwin 1.5.X from a terminal session. It can be given to users with the "editrights.exe" utility. Pierre -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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