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From:	"Andre Heider" <a DOT heider AT gom DOT com>
Date:	Thu, 17 Aug 2006 11:30:53 +0200
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hi,

windows comes with the following defaults:

system wide environment variables "TMP" and "TEMP" set to the value 
"%SYSTEMROOT%\Temp"
user overwritten variables set to "%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Temp"

when logging on using rdp these values are correctly set by windows to the 
user specific values. a cygwin shell withing this logon inherits these 
values.

now, if i logon using opensshd installed as a cygwin service, these two 
variables have the system wide value. as a fact, no user specific vars are 
set.

is this case normal users dont have write access to "%SYSTEMROOT%\Temp" 
(again, windows default). since these values are used for the api function 
GetTempPath(A|W) some native win32 programs fail due to access denied 
error.

shouldnt these values be set by cygwin (perhaps setuid?). or did i simply 
configure something the wrong way?

regards,
andre

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