{"id":263,"date":"2008-05-06T22:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T22:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.cottee.org\/2008\/05\/cygwin-permissions-under-vista\/"},"modified":"2008-05-06T22:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-06T22:37:00","slug":"cygwin-permissions-under-vista","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottee.org\/?p=263","title":{"rendered":">Cygwin Permissions Under Vista"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>>Was somewhat surprised to discover that although my account is an administrative account, I can&#8217;t edit system files from within cygwin by default. To change this right click on your Cygwin shortcut, go to the Shortcut tab, click on Advanced and select &#8220;Run as administrator&#8221;. This is not just limited to Cygwin apps by the way &#8211; you&#8217;ll get the same glorious issue if you try and edit hosts using Notepad.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/9210244490645736884-5719276707366969115?l=blog.cottee.org' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>>Was somewhat surprised to discover that although my account is an administrative account, I can&#8217;t edit system files from within cygwin by default. To change this right click on your Cygwin shortcut, go to the Shortcut tab, click on Advanced and select &#8220;Run as administrator&#8221;. This is not just limited to Cygwin apps by the way &#8211; you&#8217;ll get the same glorious issue if you try and edit hosts using Notepad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14,50],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oldsite","tag-cygwin","tag-vista"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cottee.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cottee.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cottee.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cottee.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cottee.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cottee.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cottee.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cottee.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cottee.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}