running CygwinX with a limited user account
Igor Peshansky
pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
Tue Aug 22 21:14:00 GMT 2006
Hi,
Please make sure your mailer respects the Reply-To: header -- I set it for
a reason.
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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