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From: "Dan Vasaru" <dvasaru AT broadpark DOT no>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: [Proposal] Moving user mount information to HKLM
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 16:19:49 +0200
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> On the user mount in HKLM idea, it's a no-goer. Normal users don't
>  have write access to most of HKLM, on any partly-secure install
> of NT (which is where the original posters issue arose).

I may be wrong, but couldn't setup, or whoever creates the original
HKLM/../cygwin key, set up the security attributes such that any
authenticated user may write there ?

> Secondly, there is a much more straightforward solution
> for the poster:
> use something like
> mount $USERPROFILE$CYGHOME /home/$USER

You mean creating permanent system mounts while running as administrator. We
tried that, and hit some upper mount limit in cygwin1.dll. Try it yourself:

~>for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
26; do mount h: /home/user$i; done

Dan.


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