Re: running CygwinX with a limited user account

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Bart Bacon wrote:

> To the Gurus of CygwinX,
> I've noticed that in order to run CygwinX on separate accounts on the
> same machine, all users must have "computer administrator" privileges
> under the Windows XP Professional operating system.  Is there any work
> around to allow users with "limited" privileges (such as my daughter) to
> access CygwinX? Cygwin does not seem to have this problem.  Thanks for a
> great product and hopefully a response to this question.

It would help to know exactly what error messages you're getting from the
"limited" account, but it sounds like the problem of not being able to
overwrite either /tmp/.X11-unix or /tmp/XWin.log.  X creates a directory
in /tmp that is owned by the last user who ran X (and, of course, so is
the log file).  The next user may need to have administrative privileges
to overwrite the directory and log.

One possible solution is to have a different /tmp for your daughter's
account -- see "man mount" for user mounts.  Let us know if it helps.  If
not, please give a better description of your problem, with the steps to
reproduce it and the error messages you see.
HTH,
	Igor
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