user defined environment variabales problem

Thu Aug 17 09:32:00 GMT 2006

hi,
windows comes with the following defaults:
system wide environment variables "TMP" and "TEMP" set to the value 
"%SYSTEMROOT%\Temp"
user overwritten variables set to "%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Temp"
when logging on using rdp these values are correctly set by windows to the 
user specific values. a cygwin shell withing this logon inherits these 
values.
now, if i logon using opensshd installed as a cygwin service, these two 
variables have the system wide value. as a fact, no user specific vars are 
set.
is this case normal users dont have write access to "%SYSTEMROOT%\Temp" 
(again, windows default). since these values are used for the api function 
GetTempPath(A|W) some native win32 programs fail due to access denied 
error.
shouldnt these values be set by cygwin (perhaps setuid?). or did i simply 
configure something the wrong way?
regards,
andre
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