X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=oYF+NAL2jqDd7JTO82bUo+NuQVIBk/RW7xBrPVxUWiT Oyr+QyIUqrjUuyX0bM6bCubcGksI1ortmq3WNzJFbup9JVpEm/lSuDDTAScmIaNv sqXNMAvVttKV4+m4qON2xK8T2H9S/j2Uno7VF+q0Ko6/s0MQjEsrw5zJBhy3gidc = DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=8GDIkUZJE3s3bXiB6BfTGBhprgw=; b=s6whnP2GiYwdSbjcZ d+CpKp9snYlzqmRZpjTe0S9f6id0FiYfcBAMNLlSCbvgbjhd1Xde8v/NswFxW1+t IbhVxXbayZxg+5gRI1iYRci+M98Gcrkqhvy6jk0JAq6YT69BPGAZFHJuz13cHYEd xOJj89/7aCkx8DWeJIpzd3+3Hg= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,SPF_HELO_PASS,TW_NL autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Message-ID: <515DB479.6010305@towo.net> Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 19:12:25 +0200 From: Thomas Wolff User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130307 Thunderbird/17.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: winln for native symlinks References: <515BD718 DOT 8080605 AT dancol DOT org> <515BE1BF DOT 5010803 AT towo DOT net> <515BE36F DOT 6030701 AT dancol DOT org> <515DA0D9 DOT 7050209 AT towo DOT net> <515DA8F9 DOT 9000208 AT openafs DOT org> In-Reply-To: <515DA8F9.9000208@openafs.org> X-TagToolbar-Keys: D20130404191225533 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Am 04.04.2013 18:23, schrieb Jeffrey Altman: > On 4/4/2013 11:48 AM, Thomas Wolff wrote: >> It shows this error message: >> winln: you don't permission to create symbolic links. Run, as >> administrator, >> winln: editrights -a SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege -a $YOUR_USER >> which should be fixed somehow like this: >> You don't have permission to create symbolic links. Run, as administrator, >> editrights -a SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege -u $USER >> Moreover, this advice does not help. Even after having issued this >> command as administrator, winln -s still works as administrator only. > The SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege privilege is filtered by User Account > Control (UAC). If your account is a member of the "Administrators" > group, then the process needs to be run with your elevated credentials > in order to make use of the SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege privilege. So I guess I had the right before anyway and the editrights didn't make any difference - the more useless this hint is in many cases. > The "Administrator" account always runs in an elevated state and > accounts that are not members of the "Administrators" group do not have > their security tokens filtered by UAC. > > Does Cygwin permit binaries to be built with manifests? If so, > winln.exe could include an embedded manifest that indicates that > elevated status is required. The user would then be prompted by UAC > whenever the command is used. Since winln can also create hard links (and by default), this would require too much. ------ Thomas -- 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