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Re: Administrator lacking super-user privileges on cygwin installation

On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 08:52:13PM +0300, you [Ville Herva] wrote:
>  
> > Make sure the SYSTEM user doesn't have any *user* mounts (by running
> > "mount" from a SYSTEM-owned shell).
> 
> Spot on.
> 
>  C: on / type system (textmode)
(...)
> Starting service as SYSTEM still fails:
(...) 
> but I definetely got forward. Thanks.

Yep, after re-fixing a couple of permission problems, I got the service
running. The user mount was the essential culprit.

Thanks!


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