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From: Frank Redeker <f.redeker@razorcat.de>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: winsymlinks:nativestrict and Windows 10
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 15:16:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e564b698-4347-56fb-6d36-5e305df3c361@razorcat.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f4207a77-a8d4-6004-dd76-2bc789e8d34f@gmail.com>

Am 19.03.2019 um 15:23 schrieb LRN:
> ... SNIP ...
> 
> Devmode + SYMBOLIC_LINK_FLAG_ALLOW_UNPRIVILEGED_CREATE is the only way to
> create symlinks without being Administrator (that i know of). You can't just
> give some extra privileges to your non-administrator account. I know, i've tried.

On Windows 10 Pro (1809) this works for me for with a non-administrator
account.

I just added the SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege to my normal user account
and was able to use mklink without any problems.


Frank

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-19 15:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-19 12:35 Andrey Repin
2019-03-19 14:23 ` LRN
2019-03-19 15:16   ` Frank Redeker [this message]
2019-03-19 16:57     ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-03-19 17:20   ` Andrey Repin

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