Mail Archives: cygwin/2007/08/23/14:44:18
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> Dick Repasky wrote:
>>
>> On Windows Vista Enterprise, I consistently receive "permission denied"
>> errors when using cygwin mount/umount commands on system mounts
>> (mount/umount -s ...). I cannot mount novel system mount points (e.g.,
>> mount -s -b C:\\bonga /usr/local) or unmount existing system mount points
>> (e.g., umount -s /usr/lib). The same is true from the cygwin bash prompt,
>> from within a cygwin bash script, from the windows command prompt
>> (C:\cygwin\bin\mount -s ...) or from within a windows .bat file.
>>
>> The system is a single-user system, and my identity is that under which
>> setup.exe was run to install cygwin.
>>
>> I have not had this issue with cygwin under XP.
>>
>> User mounts (mount/umount -u) work just fine for me on Vista.
>>
>> Are system mounts supposed to be unmutable? If so, oh. If not, is there
>> a work-around, or what have I done wrongly?
>
>
> Try turning off UAC. Otherwise, give your user the ability to add/remove/
> update all registry entries.
>
Yes, UAC is the issue, thanks.
Dick
Dick Repasky
Center for Computational Cytomics
UITS Cubicle 101.08
Indiana University
USA
rrepasky AT indiana DOT edu
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