Re: running CygwinX with a limited user account

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

Hi,

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On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, J Jude wrote:

> [snip]
> Setting up Cygwin so that each user had their own /tmp dir sounds like
> a better workaround for both problems, but I have not yet figured out
> how to do that.

For each user, execute "mount -u SOMEUSERSPECIFICDIR /tmp" (as "man mount"
would have told you).

> In the long run, the Cygwin/X11 distribution should work for limited
> users out-of-the-box.

I don't think Cygwin/X was ever designed to run by multiple users
simultaneously.
HTH,
	Igor
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