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 -- 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