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From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: Doug Henderson <djndnbvg@gmail.com>,
	Rainer Emrich <rainer-lists@emrich-ebersheim.de>,
	The Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: setup (2.911)
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2021 14:38:03 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f4d57960-3a09-8b7c-ce60-6e80ff788ee8@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ1FpuOESpovRZy1RN19df7EmaP4JdsOK9J7G7nx53Z_E+iAuQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 30/12/2021 18:38, Doug Henderson wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Dec 2021 at 09:46, Rainer Emrich
> <rainer-lists@emrich-ebersheim.de> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jon,
>> for me the new setup executables do not work, same for both:
> 
> In my analysis, setup is reporting for a non-elevated shell:
> 
> $ ./setup-x86_64
> User has NO backup/restore rights
> User has symlink creation right
> note: Hand installation over to elevated child process.
> 
> for an elevated shell:
> 
> $ ./setup-x86_64
> Starting cygwin install, version 2.911
> User has backup/restore rights
> User has symlink creation right
> *** --symlink-type native requires SeCreateSymbolicLink privilege or
> 'Developer Mode'
> 
[...]

> I do not have  'Developer Mode' enabled as it is overkill unless necessary.
> 
> I suspect that setup-x86_64.exe is not correctly checking for the
> "SeCreateSymbolicLink" and/or "Create symbolic links" permission.

Thanks!  Yes, there's a few things wrong with how that permission is 
detected and it's presence reported.

I've uploaded setup 2.912 with an attempted fix.

   https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.912.x86_64.exe
   https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.912.x86.exe

Please try that, and see if it improves things for you?

  reply	other threads:[~2021-12-31 14:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-29 15:58 Jon Turney
2021-12-30 16:45 ` Rainer Emrich
2021-12-30 17:38   ` Jon Turney
2021-12-30 18:31     ` Rainer Emrich
2021-12-30 19:04       ` Rainer Emrich
2021-12-30 18:38   ` Doug Henderson
2021-12-31 14:38     ` Jon Turney [this message]
2021-12-31 15:02       ` Rainer Emrich
2022-01-01 14:15       ` © Fxzx mic
2022-01-01 15:14         ` Marco Atzeri

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