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From:	"Mills, John M." <Mills DOT J AT ems-t DOT com>
To:	"Cygwin Users (cygwin AT cygwin DOT com)" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	Multiple Cygwin users in WinXPPro
Date:	Fri, 6 May 2005 17:08:59 -0400
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Cygnets -

I just installed Cygwin and its X-windows on a WinXPPro box to be used by
multiple, individual users with different logins. I found user "B" couldn't
run 'xinit' after user "A" unless s/he deleted or changed permissions on
'/tmp/XWin.log', which was always created with permissions -rw-r--r-- and
not deleted in ordinary usage.

I now have /tmp/XWin.log owned by 'Adminstrators' of group 'Users' with
permissions:
-rw-rw-rw- and this seems to allow users to start X-Windows interchangeably.
However, it was a manual change and will have to be re-done if the file is
ever deleted and recreated.

Question: How can I change things so that '/tmp/XWin.log' is created with
a+w permissions?
(It really doesn't depend who owns it, if all can write it.)

TIA.
 - John Mills


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