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
