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Re: messed up user permissions from w2k terminal session
- From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre dot humblet at ieee dot org>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Cc: James dot Below at grc dot nasa dot gov
- Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 22:46:03 -0400
- Subject: Re: messed up user permissions from w2k terminal session
- References: <5.1.1.5.2.20031003155210.01a43a98@popserve.grc.nasa.gov>
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
>
> More specific details....
>
> If I am logged into the console I can run any cygwin apps. When I log in
> remotely to the server through ssh, everything is fine. The only time a
> problem occurs is when I login through a terminal server client using an
> account other than "Administrator". The administrator account doesn't
> experience problem. A user account belonging in the Administrators group
> does.
You don't say what version of Cygwin you are using.
If it's a recent one, could you try a snapshot? The problem may be fixed
since 9/26.
Pierre
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