Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020610103607.04c51ff8@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 10:40:32 -0400 To: Gunnar =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bostr=F6m?= , From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: Setup for "Just me" or "All Users" In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g5AEjGs14941 At 02:38 AM 6/10/2002, Gunnar Boström wrote: >Hi! >What will be the difference in the setup when I choose "Just me" or "All Users"? >I can't find this information. This just says whether the mount points created by setup will be for everyone or just the user installing it. See "mount --help" and the "-u" and "-s" flags and/or "man mount". >I would like to install cygwin on a windows XP-server. >Ideally an user that would like to use cygwin should only set up his(hers) path to cygwin on the server. >Is this possible? Actually, that shouldn't be necessary. If the setup worked properly and the user is in /etc/passwd with the proper group in /etc/group, any user that starts cygwin.bat should be able to use Cygwin, assuming you chose "All Users" for the question you asked above. Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/