X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: RE: Vista & coreutils (or any other package) Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 09:24:34 +0100 Message-ID: From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg_Schaible?= To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id kBF8P1EV023179 DePriest, Jason R. wrote on Thursday, December 14, 2006 7:30 PM: > On 12/14/06, Brian Dessent wrote: [snip] >> I thought the idea here was that the manifest tells the system >> explicitly "I am not an installer and I do not need to be run with >> elevated privileges", i.e. treat it like a normal program. >> > > From Microsoft Vista's UAC Dev Requirements > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > When developing new installation programs, much like developing > programs for Windows Vista, be sure to embed an application manifest > with an appropriate requestedExecutionLevel element. See the Step Six: > Create and Embed an Application Manifest with Your Application section > for more information. When the requestedExecutionLevel is present in > the embedded application manifest, it overrides Installer Detection. > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > So if you use > > level="asInvoker" /> > > It should work without requiring elevated privileges. Maybe. Don't post such well kept secrets to lastest (patented?) M$ technology in public mailing lists, otherwise malware programmers might get aware of it. ROTLFWMP - Jörg BTW: I bet VStudio creates such manifests on-the-fly simply by activating a checkbox, but it's another well-known fact that malware programmers do never use VStudio - maybe gcc? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/