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Re: install for multiple (select) users in NT/2000
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- Subject: Re: install for multiple (select) users in NT/2000
- From: Robert Jacobson <teridon at erols dot com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 13:29:06 -0500
- References: <p04330106b6dfe5414c9b@[128.183.234.170]>
Figured it out myself (I did what I said below with the registry
keys). I guess it needs the mount points.
>I originally installed cygwin under a regular user account (call it
>"user1") on a computer running Win2k. I selected the option for
>"this user only".
>
>I'd like for certain other user accounts (but not all) and the
>administrator account to be able to use it. I tried just launching
>cygwin.bat from the administrator account, but that doesn't work
>right -- I get a bash prompt, but it doesn't work -- not even an ls.
>
>I tried running setup as administrator, again selecting "only this
>user", and "local install", but the installer said there was nothing
>to install. And cygwin.bat still didn't work.
>
>I'm guessing that I need registry keys for the users that are to run
>it. Would exporting the registry keys HKCU/software/cygnus (or
>something like that) from the user1 account, then adding them to the
>other user accounts work?
>
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>Robert Jacobson teridon@erols.com
>BS, Aeronautical Engineering Univ. of Md., College Park
>Flight Ops. Team - SOlar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)
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