On Thu, May 30, 2024 at 5:21 PM Dan Shelton wrote:
How can someone run explorer as Admin then?
>
I believe the point of the design was to prevent exactly that (as already
noted, for security reasons).
Bill
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On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 9:36 PM Dan Shelton wrote:
> Does anyone know how to run Windows explorer.exe with Cygwin
> /bin/newgrp, so all new files created by explorer.exe use that new
> primary group, and all programs launched by explorer.exe use that same
> primary group?
>
As I understand it,
On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 8:29 PM Dan Shelton wrote:
Just a couple of ideas:
> - Native Windows doesn't have an easy way to list group memberships
> for the current user, so a WinSG -l to list available groups would be
> good
>
Maybe you weren't aware of it - 'whoami /groups'
> - WinSG should be
On Sat, May 25, 2024 at 3:54 PM Martin Wege wrote:
Can Cygwin be installed as a normal user (without Admin rights) in a
> nonstandard location, like C.\Users\martinwege\cygwinroot36\...)?
>
> Also, can this be done for more than one Cygwin version, e.g. I'd like
> to test multiple Cygwin versions
On Sun, Apr 21, 2024 at 5:25 PM Dan Shelton wrote:
On Sat, 20 Apr 2024 at 05:37, Brian Inglis via Cygwin
> wrote:
> > Under MS Windows you can use Sysinternals WinObj64 to browse the
> hierarchy and
> > objects.
>
> What is that?
>
Perhaps search for "winobj64" ?
On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 5:40 AM Christian Franke wrote:
Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
>
> > For Cygwin apps, this occured when you built, say, an executable under
> > Windows 8.1 before Windows 10 support was added to the Cygwin toolchain:
> > the manifest linked to the Cygwin executable
On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 10:21 AM Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Mar 19 09:18, Bill Stewart via Cygwin wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure of the exact scenario that led to the "RtlGetVersion is
> > subject to manifesting" conclusion, but I can't reproduce it.
>
> Yo
On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 9:01 AM Richard Campbell wrote:
On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 9:04 AM Bill Stewart via Cygwin
> wrote:
>
> > Can you please clarify the circumstances under which the RtlGetVersion
> > function "may not return the correct values"?
>
> "
On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 4:21 AM Christian Franke wrote:
Cygwin uses the undocumented RtlGetNtVersionNumbers() from ntdll.dll
> because even RtlGetVersion() may not return the correct values. See
> function wincapc::init()
>
>
On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 7:50 AM Andrey Repin wrote:
> (I ask because PowerShell has been a built-in part of the Windows since
> > Windows 7--that's over 14 years ago as I write this.)
>
> Since Windows XP.
>
You must not be remembering correctly. PowerShell wasn't a built-in part of
Windows
On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 7:42 AM Cedric Blancher wrote:
How can I get the group SID for a file in cmd.exe (powershell is not an
> option)?
>
Why is PowerShell not an option?
(I ask because PowerShell has been a built-in part of the Windows since
Windows 7--that's over 14 years ago as I write
On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 10:07 AM Mainz, Roland wrote:
Is there any documentation how Cygwin 3.5.0 can be automatically (without
> GUI and user intervention, e.g. via *.bat script) be installed as part of a
> CI (Continuous integration) build environment ?
>
Have you looked at cygwin.com?
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On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 9:51 PM Martin Wege via Cygwin
wrote:
Is there a cmd.exe clone for Windows which supports UNC paths?
>
No, and this is because cmd.exe already supports UNC paths. I have been
using UNC paths in cmd.exe for many years.
It might help to describe your problem rather than a
On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 7:53 AM Jose Isaias Cabrera wrote:
I have a new Win11 PC, and I wanted to capture the same Cygwin setup that I
> have in another Win10 PC. I copied the C:\cygwin64 folder from the Win10 pc
> to the Win11 pc, then I downloaded a fresh setup-x86_64.exe from
> cygwin.com to
On Wed, Sep 6, 2023 at 5:32 PM Mark Geisert wrote:
Speculation: The specific exit code 0xC142 may or may not have
> something to do
> with Windows error 142, which is ERROR_BUSY_DRIVE. I cannot help further
> on this.
>
Correction: The low word of 0xC142 = hex 142 = decimal 322 =
On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 8:52 AM Bill Stewart wrote:
On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 7:01 AM Andrew Schulman wrote:
>
> > How can I find out whether the current Cygwin terminal has
>> > Administrator rights? I want to safeguard our admin scripts with a
>> > simple test and bail out with an error if
On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 7:01 AM Andrew Schulman wrote:
> How can I find out whether the current Cygwin terminal has
> > Administrator rights? I want to safeguard our admin scripts with a
> > simple test and bail out with an error if someone wants to do admin
> > stuff (say: regtool) without admin
On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 9:00 AM Thomas Schweikle wrote:
It is the address of one of the distribution servers. Since this is not
> "one server", but a cluster of servers, your "suspicious" server shows
> only one thing: those "suspicious" flags are suspicious by themselves:
>
> this particular
On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 2:15 AM ASSI wrote:
Windows really doesn't have a defined notion of what is or is not an
> "administrator". Each particular definition will be insufficient or
> invalid in certain contexts.
>
There is a definition of administrator in Windows: Your account is a
member,
On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 5:12 AM Corinna Vinschen wrote:
I'm puzzled because I'm an idiot.
>
That's one thing you certainly are not.
Bill
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On Fri, Apr 14, 2023 at 9:29 AM Jon Turney wrote:
A new setup release candidate is available at:
>
> https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.926.x86_64.exe (64 bit version)
> https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.926.x86.exe(32 bit version)
>
> Please test, and report any problems here.
>
> ...
>
> -
On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 2:55 PM Jon Turney wrote:
Sorry, based on the previous discussion at [1] this seems to be broken
> at the moment, due to '-x' being broken.
>
> [1] https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2023-February/252994.html
>
> If you really need this, please try old setup versions from
On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 2:18 PM Bill Stewart wrote:
On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 6:32 AM Jon Turney wrote:
>
>
>> If a package is listed for both -x and -P, it is reinstalled, so while
>> not ideal, you might be able to achieve something like what you want
>> with 'setup -I -x
On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 6:32 AM Jon Turney wrote:
> If a package is listed for both -x and -P, it is reinstalled, so while
> not ideal, you might be able to achieve something like what you want
> with 'setup -I -x "package1,package2,package3" -P
> "package1,package2,package3"'
>
> An option which
On Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 1:06 PM Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Yeah, quoted paths were not handled at all. I pushed a new version
> 1.64 which contains a patch.
>
Great; thanks!
Bill
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FYI:
In our corporate environment we run vulnerability scans, and one of the
most common complaints of the scanner is "unquoted service paths."
To fix this "vulnerability," I use a quoted service path for cygrunsrv.exe;
e.g.:
"C:\Program Files\Cygwin\cygrunsrv.exe"
This seems to confuse
On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 9:21 AM Sylwester Rutkowski wrote:
The setup-x86_64.exe is reported as malicious at
> https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/edd0a64dc65087ffe453ca94b267169b39458a983b29ac31320fcaa983d0f97e/detection
>
> Can this be resolved somehow?
This is, of course, a false positive.
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