From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15728 invoked by alias); 29 May 2013 17:01:53 -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 15490 invoked by uid 89); 29 May 2013 17:01:50 -0000 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 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; Wed, 29 May 2013 17:01:50 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id B40B35207E8; Wed, 29 May 2013 19:01:47 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 17:08:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Using native symlinks Message-ID: <20130529170147.GG4471@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20130528185553.GA31309@calimero.vinschen.de> <20130529083910.GD31309@calimero.vinschen.de> <20130529152339.GB4471@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SW-Source: 2013-05/txt/msg00425.txt.bz2 On May 29 12:40, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: > On 29 May 2013 11:23, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On May 29 10:33, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: > >> On 29 May 2013 04:39, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> > To workaround that, you can either add yourself to the "Create symbolic > >> > links" right, or you can add the "Users" group if you want to allow > >> > every user to create symlinks. But this requires changing it on all > >> > machines manually, so alternatively you can create a domain policy which > >> > adds the trusted users to this user right on all machines. > >> > >> I tried this approach and I'm still not having any luck with the user > >> being able to create native symbolic links in a non-elevated shell. > > > > What approach? Adding the Users group to the Local Security Policy or > > adding a domain policy? If the latter, did you call gpupdate on the > > client or reboot the client machine to propagate the domain policy? > > I've added the specific domain user in the Local Security Policy as I > am not a domain admin (only an admin on the local machine) and as such > cannot propagate a domain policy change. > > > Also, either way, did you logoff and logon so that the "Create symbolic > > links" user right can be added to your user token? Note that your token > > remains unchanged if you didn't exit from your session. Just changing > > the Policy isn't enough, the OS needs achance to create a new user token > > for you containing the user right. > > I've rebooted the machine since making the change and it has had no > affect. Is there something else I need to do? I don't know. I have to try (but not today). Did you try to add the "Users" group to the Local Security Policy entry instead? 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