On May 9 12:33, Chris Rodgers wrote: > Dear List, > > I have two admin accounts on a Windows XP Pro machine. I installed > Cygwin 1.7 beta using Admin1 initially. This morning, I tried to update > some packages from account Admin2. > > I kept getting errors about not being able to update files because they > were "in use". > > It turned out that I just needed to blow away all the permissions from > the cygwin tree and add an inheritable ACL for the Administrators group.
So you removed all the carefully crafted POSIX permissions. Oh well. > But - as the other posters have said, shouldn't setup just default to > installing as "Administrators" rather than a specific admin user so that > it is possible to share the cygwin tree between users? I applied a patch to setup which allows all admins to replace files in a given installation without falling back to non-POSIX permissions. I just uploaded setup version 2.621 to http://cygwin.com/setup-1.7.exe which contains that patch. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat