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From: "Dr. M. C. Nelson" <mcnelson@materialintelligencellc.com>
To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: Vista, new install, x server does not start, startxwin.bat missing
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:41:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <002301cab179$e6a96220$b3fc2660$@com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B7EA9BF.8080505@dronecode.org.uk>
I just did a fresh install on Vista, and confirmed the following
1) From an administrator account, it works out-of-the-box. Beautiful.
2) From a regular user account, clicking the x-server or shell icons, produces a UAC prompt.
The behavior, without changing anything whatsoever from the installed state, is that the regular user cannot run x or the bash shell console window without first entering a password for an administrator account.
Q.E.D.
-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Jon TURNEY
Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 10:10 AM
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Vista, new install, x server does not start, startxwin.bat missing
On 18/02/2010 03:38, Dr. M. C. Nelson wrote:
> And that is the problem (server, shell and xterm have to run as
administrator). Even if the programs are set to run at elevated privilege,
they will still throw up a UAC dialog, and the user will have to type in an
administrator password.
I think, as I said before, that this is Vista 'functioning as designed'. If
you set an application to run as administrator, you will get a UAC prompt.
If you tell us what the problems are with the programs which cause them to
require administrator privileges, then perhaps we can fix them.
--
Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-19 15:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-03 1:19 Dr. M. C. Nelson
2010-02-03 2:06 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
2010-02-03 17:42 ` Jon TURNEY
2010-02-17 14:45 ` Jim Olson
2010-02-17 19:36 ` Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
2010-02-18 0:59 ` Scott Fordin
2010-02-18 3:38 ` Dr. M. C. Nelson
2010-02-19 15:09 ` Jon TURNEY
2010-02-19 15:41 ` Dr. M. C. Nelson [this message]
2010-02-24 23:21 ` Jon TURNEY
2010-02-18 5:08 ` Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
2010-02-18 17:39 ` Scott Fordin
2010-02-09 4:25 Dr. M. C. Nelson
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