X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: RE: Permission denied but have permission Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:24:35 -0500 Message-ID: <786EBDA1AC46254B813E200779E7AD3601D2BC77@srv1163ex1.flightsafety.com> In-Reply-To: <32503779.post@talk.nabble.com> References: <32503779.post@talk.nabble.com> From: "Thrall, Bryan" To: CC: "Thrall, Bryan" X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id p8LMP1o2011861 Lou U wrote on 2011-09-21: > > I am a newbie running cygwin on Windows 7. I want to run an installer > for graphics software, Dislin, viz. > > $./setup.exe > bash: ./setup.exe Permission denied Windows 7 has something called UAC[1] which forces you to run anything called 'setup.exe' with Administrator privileges. You either need to disable UAC or run the installer from Windows Explorer or a command prompt. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Account_Control Hope this helps, -- Bryan Thrall Principal Software Engineer FlightSafety International bryan.thrall@flightsafety.com   -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple