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Re: cygwin + xwin in win7 as unprivileged user?
We are an an AD, perhaps the inability to create a socket is coming from
above. However, I have full admin rights on these machines so I ought to be
able to adjust that if that is the case. I'll take a look.
Meanwhile, I tried various other tricks to run the thing as admin without it
asking for a password, but no dice.
Charles Wilson-2 wrote:
>
> 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...
>
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> Chuck
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