Re: cygwin: not administrator account?
On 6/28/2012 5:06 PM, ping wrote: experts: I run into an account priviledge issue here when I tried to setup ssh server in cygwin. I don't remember I ever ran into this previously in winXP. so this is in my win7 HE. looks I can't ping anything and can't proceed with sshd activation. but from control panel I'm sure I'm administrator (I'm the only user in this new laptop so far). If your account has administrator privileges, you need to say you want to use them for the program you're running. To do this, find the Cygwin Terminal in your Start Menu and right click on it. Pick Run as administrator. Proceed as before. -- Larry _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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
Re: cygwin: not administrator account?
oh that's my bad. yes that works, thanks Larry! regards ping On 06/28/2012 05:51 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 6/28/2012 5:06 PM, ping wrote: experts: I run into an account priviledge issue here when I tried to setup ssh server in cygwin. I don't remember I ever ran into this previously in winXP. so this is in my win7 HE. looks I can't ping anything and can't proceed with sshd activation. but from control panel I'm sure I'm administrator (I'm the only user in this new laptop so far). If your account has administrator privileges, you need to say you want to use them for the program you're running. To do this, find the Cygwin Terminal in your Start Menu and right click on it. Pick Run as administrator. Proceed as before. -- 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
