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RE: Permission denied but have permission
- From: "Thrall, Bryan" <bryan dot thrall at flightsafety dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Cc: "Thrall, Bryan" <bryan dot thrall at flightsafety dot com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:24:35 -0500
- Subject: RE: Permission denied but have permission
- References: <32503779.post@talk.nabble.com>
Lou U wrote on 2011-09-21:
>
> I am a newbie running cygwin on Windows 7. I want to run an installer
> for graphics software, Dislin, viz.
>
> $./setup.exe
> bash: ./setup.exe Permission denied
Windows 7 has something called UAC[1] which forces you to run anything called 'setup.exe' with Administrator privileges. You either need to disable UAC or run the installer from Windows Explorer or a command prompt.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Account_Control
Hope this helps,
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Bryan Thrall
Principal Software Engineer
FlightSafety International
bryan.thrall@flightsafety.com
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