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Installer cannot write to Cygwin's /usr/local/etc
- From: Gerry Reno <greno at verizon dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 21:12:08 -0500
- Subject: Installer cannot write to Cygwin's /usr/local/etc
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I have a Windows MSI installer that first loads Cygwin and then has a deferred copy of some files into /usr/local/bin
and /usr/local/etc.
The copies into /usr/local/bin succeed fine.
The copies into /usr/local/etc always get Access denied.
I've tried swapping them and same behavior. The files that would copy into /usr/local/bin now would not copy into
/usr/local/etc.
I'm seeing this behavior on Windows 7 and Windows 2008R2 w/UAC.
The installer prompts the user for elevated privileges to deal with UAC.
Is there some underlying difference in the way that /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/etc are configured in Cygwin?
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