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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 11:42:28 -0500
From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net>
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Subject: Re: cannot run setup64.exe without admin privileges (even if renamed foo.exe)
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On 2013-09-12 04:07, Frédéric Bron wrote:
> I would like to run setup64.exe on Windows 7 without asking for admin
> rights but the computer asks me for admin credentials.
> I read this: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-06/msg00286.html where
> Corinna suggested to rename the .exe to foo.exe but this did not work.
> I also do not have the rights to modify the Local Security Policy.

UAC Installer Detection only affects x86 binaries, so that only helps 
with setup-x86.exe. As for setup-x86_64.exe, its builtin manifest 
requires Admin privileges because otherwise it won't promote itself 
automatically, and most people install Cygwin for All Users.

> Is there any workaround? Would it be possible to supply a setup that
> do not need admin privileges?

You can build setup.exe yourself for x86_64-w64-mingw32 with the 
requestedExecutionLevel entry removed from the manifest.  The sources 
are in cygwin-apps CVS.


Yaakov


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