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Hi,

On 06/12/11 20:37, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> A lot of changes and fixes have been made in Cygwin since 1.7.9 has
> been released, so we're looking forward to release Cygwin 1.7.10 soon.
>
> Please test the latest developer snapshots at http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
> which should have "Release Candidate" quality.

I'm having a problem with the most recent snapshot (at time of
writing), 2011-12-19 17:48:27 UTC. A regular non-privileged (not in
Administrators) user is unable to execute any commands from within a
Cygwin process itself.

The following copy/paste from a Command Prompt session should
illustrate the problem:

c:\Users\Public\portapps\cygwin\bin>ls /var
cache  empty  games  lib  log  run  tmp

c:\Users\Public\portapps\cygwin\bin>sh -c "/bin/ls /var"
sh: /bin/ls: Permission denied

c:\Users\Public\portapps\cygwin\bin>id -a
uid=1007(portapps) gid=513(None) groups=513(None),545(Users)

c:\Users\Public\portapps\cygwin\bin>sh -c "/bin/id -a"
sh: /bin/id: Permission denied

I am running Windows 7 64bit.

I have another user, who is in the Administrators group, but not being
run via “Run as administrator”, for whom it all works fine:

c:\Users\Public\portapps\cygwin\bin>ls /var
cache  empty  games  lib  log  run  tmp

c:\Users\Public\portapps\cygwin\bin>sh -c "/bin/ls /var"
cache  empty  games  lib  log  run  tmp

c:\Users\Public\portapps\cygwin\bin>id -a
uid=42037(sbaddah) gid=10513(Domain Users) groups=10513(Domain
Users),545(Users)
,...(quite a number, 10+ domain groups)

Using this user, I was able to verify that a problem I have described
in the thread of http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-12/msg00460.html is
not resolved by 1.7.10.

I mention this because I had upgraded to the snapshot specifically
because of that problem. But I'll keep further updates about it on
that thread.

Regards,
Shaddy

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