X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 18:01:19 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: NTFS Symlinks (reparse point) redux Message-ID: <20091105230119.GB2699@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <4AF357E1 DOT 4010106 AT tlinx DOT org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4AF357E1.4010106@tlinx.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 02:55:29PM -0800, Linda Walsh wrote: >Sorry to bring up and older topic, but I'm only beginning to explore Vista >and run into some of its cra^h^h^hnew features. > >Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> On Oct 29 02:40, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >>> On 10/29/2009 01:26 AM, Neil Mowbray wrote: >>>> On NTFS systems that support real symbolic links (eg those with Vista) >>>> Will ln -s be chansed to support native symbolic links? > >>> No, not until, at least, native symbolic links don't require elevated >>> privileges to use. >----- >They don't have to..."sorta": Under the User-rights assignment plugin, >where you assign what users/groups have what priviledges, you can >'allow' USERS, or ALL ATHENTICATED USERS to have the priviledge. Then >it doesn't require them to be an Administrator to use. No one said "Administrator". Corinna said "elevated privileges". You can't expect that anyone who wants to use a symlink will be capable of getting additional rights. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple