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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.10
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On Dec 22 18:09, Shaddy Baddah wrote:
> 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.

Works for me.  I tried this with a non-admin domain member account
as well as with a non-admin local SAM account.  Did you check the
actual permissions?


Corinna

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