Re: setup.exe now requires administrator privileges

2013-04-05 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Wed, 2013-04-03 at 17:19 +1100, Shaddy Baddah wrote: > I've just run the setup64.exe following a procedure I use to defeat > UAC's privilege elevation based on the "setup" substring. That is I > renamed it to cygpkg64.exe and ran it as a non-privileged user. > > I've noticed that this no longer

Re: setup.exe now requires administrator privileges

2013-04-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 5 13:35, Shaddy Baddah wrote: > Hi, > > On Apr 3 21:20, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Apr 3 17:19, Shaddy Baddah wrote: > > >>Based on my limited understanding of .exe.manifest files, I believe the > >>problem should be related to this change to Cygwin setup: > >> > >>http://sourceware.

Re: setup.exe now requires administrator privileges

2013-04-04 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On Apr 3 21:20, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 3 17:19, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Based on my limited understanding of .exe.manifest files, I believe the problem should be related to this change to Cygwin setup: http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/setup/setup.exe.manifest?rev=2.4&conte

Re: setup.exe now requires administrator privileges

2013-04-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 3 17:19, Shaddy Baddah wrote: > Hi, > > I've just run the setup64.exe following a procedure I use to defeat > UAC's privilege elevation based on the "setup" substring. That is I > renamed it to cygpkg64.exe and ran it as a non-privileged user. > > I've noticed that this no longer defeats

setup.exe now requires administrator privileges

2013-04-02 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, I've just run the setup64.exe following a procedure I use to defeat UAC's privilege elevation based on the "setup" substring. That is I renamed it to cygpkg64.exe and ran it as a non-privileged user. I've noticed that this no longer defeats UAC, at least with 2.795 build of setup64.exe. Bas