From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14598 invoked by alias); 28 May 2013 18:55:57 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 14588 invoked by uid 89); 28 May 2013 18:55:57 -0000 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,TW_NL autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.84/v0.84-167-ge50287c) with ESMTP; Tue, 28 May 2013 18:55:56 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 94277520652; Tue, 28 May 2013 20:55:53 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 19:43:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Using native symlinks Message-ID: <20130528185553.GA31309@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SW-Source: 2013-05/txt/msg00398.txt.bz2 On May 28 14:16, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: > What permissions do I need for native symlinks to work? According to > edit rights I have SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege (when checking via an > elevated shell - i.e. with "Run as Administrator"): > > ┌─┤ csutclif@bmotec3017201lt ├──┤ ~ │ > └─┤ 14:11 ├─>> editrights -u $USER -l > SeLockMemoryPrivilege > SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege > > However, if I try and create a native symlink it still fails. If > using the winsymlink:native option I get a "cygwin" symlink, winln That's "winsymlinks:native" I hope... > pops up a message stating I need the SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege. > Not sure if it's relevant or not, but the $USER in this case is a > domain user, not a local user. Are you sure it's an elevated shell? `id -G' should contain 544. Is the filesystem NTFS? Is it a local NTFS or a remote NTFS hosted by a Vista-or-later OS? If you set CYGWIN=winsymlink Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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