Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 19:45:46 -0400 From: "Pierre A. Humblet" To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: messed up user permissions from w2k terminal session Message-ID: <20031008234545.GA88351@hpn5170x> Mail-Followup-To: "Pierre A. Humblet" , cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <5 DOT 1 DOT 1 DOT 5 DOT 2 DOT 20031003155210 DOT 01a43a98 AT popserve DOT grc DOT nasa DOT gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.5.2.20031003155210.01a43a98@popserve.grc.nasa.gov> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 04:48:43PM -0400, James D Below wrote: > HI everyone, > > I'm not sure how I did it but I messed up my user permissions or local > policy settings. Now whenever I run any cygwin app (bash.exe, wc.exe, > rxvt.exe) from a w2k terminal session and logged in as a user, I see the > following error: > > **** CreateFileMapping, Win32 error 5. Terminating. > > I'm running Windows 2000 SP4 and CYGWIN = binmode tty ntsec This problem has now been explained with James' help and this message is to close the thread. It turns out that on some recent Windows systems a special privilege, "create global objects", is required to run Cygwin 1.5.X from a terminal session. It can be given to users with the "editrights.exe" utility. Pierre -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/