From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1755 invoked by alias); 19 Mar 2019 15:16:08 -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 1732 invoked by uid 89); 19 Mar 2019 15:16:08 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,KAM_NUMSUBJECT autolearn=no version=3.3.1 spammy=nativestrict, winsymlinks, symlinks, H*r:8.13.7 X-HELO: proxy.razorcat.com Received: from proxy.razorcat.de (HELO proxy.razorcat.com) (213.23.173.139) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 19 Mar 2019 15:16:06 +0000 Received: from [192.168.0.232] (Mimir.ats-berlin.de [192.168.0.232]) by proxy.razorcat.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.7) with ESMTP id x2JFG3wO009801 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2019 16:16:03 +0100 (CET) Subject: Re: winsymlinks:nativestrict and Windows 10 To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <1039329494.20190319152358@yandex.ru> From: Frank Redeker Message-ID: Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 15:16:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.3.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-03/txt/msg00488.txt.bz2 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 -- 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