X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <465E7D40.7020201@sophia.inria.fr> Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 09:46:08 +0200 From: Arnaud Legout User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: File Permissions on Vista [could be "how to deal with UAC"?] References: <465BDC8F.4050907@sophia.inria.fr> <465C34C3.2040707@gmail.com> <31b7d2790705301738w4cbd5342wc5c7d5f75d0ad58e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <31b7d2790705301738w4cbd5342wc5c7d5f75d0ad58e@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (sophia.inria.fr [138.96.64.20]); Thu, 31 May 2007 09:46:05 +0200 (MEST) X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 Hi, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > On 5/29/07, morgan gangwere wrote: > - cut out Arnaud's information and Morgan's PGP header / footer - >> >> Cant we make setup.exe check if its Vista? i mean, its an environment >> variable! >> >> UAC does some odd things to user access and permissions. >> > > http://blogs.msdn.com/onoj/archive/2007/04/20/windows-vista-uac-and-installer-detection.aspx > > > Vista is supposed to automatically prompt the end-user to enter some > creds with Admin rights (or whatever the appropriate rights are) if > the executable is called 'setup.exe' > > Is this not happening? This is not the problem. The problem is that with UAC activated any file and folder created with windows applications will have no access right (like a chmod 000). I suppose that Morgan was referring to the possibility of a message prompted by the installer that with UAC enabled, unexpected results may happen. Perhaps Morgan can also point out other issues with UAC enabled. Arnaud. -- Arnaud Legout, Ph.D. INRIA Sophia Antipolis - Plančte Phone : 00.33.4.92.38.78.15 2004 route des lucioles - BP 93 Fax : 00.33.4.92.38.79.78 06902 Sophia Antipolis CEDEX E-mail: arnaud.legout@sophia.inria.fr FRANCE Web : http://www-sop.inria.fr/planete/Arnaud.Legout/index.html -- 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/