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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
