X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4FECD281.1090007@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:54:09 -0400 From: ping User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120602 Thunderbird/13.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: cygwin: not administrator account? References: <4FECC73B DOT 4050108 AT gmail DOT com> <4FECD1D6 DOT 4010304 AT cygwin DOT com> In-Reply-To: <4FECD1D6.4010304@cygwin.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com 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