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Re: cygwin + xwin in win7 as unprivileged user?
- From: Charles Wilson <cygwin at cwilson dot fastmail dot fm>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 16:01:41 -0400
- Subject: Re: cygwin + xwin in win7 as unprivileged user?
- References: <29889419.post@talk.nabble.com>
- Reply-to: Charles Wilson <cygwin at cwilson dot fastmail dot fm>
On 10/5/2010 1:22 PM, davidstvz wrote:
>
> Is it possible to make Cygwin work with xwin as an unprivileged user. I'm
> even open to stupid hacks like making the entire Cygwin directory owned by
> the "Everyone" group. I tried that but then it couldn't create a socket
> needed after I ran 'startxwin'.
>
> Anyway to get this working without using "run as" admin?
I don't have a solution for you, but I ran into the same issue on WinXP;
I don't believe the problem ("can't create a socket") is Win7 specific.
Rather, I think it is a security policy setting: XWin runs fine for me
on XP and Vista at home -- but in our corporate environment, I get that
error.
I think my company's IT wizards have decided that nobody should be able
to open a socket, unless the program doing so is specifically allowed to
do so. By them.
Are you, by chance, trying to run XWin on a corporate network where you
might run into the same policy? If so, I'll leave it up to you to
wrestle with your own IT wizards over that...
--
Chuck
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