On Aug 29 16:04, Christian Franke wrote: > For members of administrator group, Cygwin runs with root access rights. > Cygwin enables the Windows backup and restore privileges which are not > enabled by default. > > This is IMO not desirable under all circumstances. > > This patch adds a new flag to the Cygwin environment variable. > If 'CYGWIN=noroot' is set, the extra privileges are removed after Cygwin > startup. > > This allows to run a Cygwin shell with the same default access rights as > cmd or explorer.
I don't like the idea of the patch for three reasons: - It adds a new CYGWIN setting and - It adds a new CYGWIN setting which is redundant on all systems supporting UAC. Either you're running in a default shell with restricted rights, which means, you don't have admin privileges anyway, or you're runnning in a admin shell and you very likely want all rights you can get as admin. - On all older systems you shouldn't work as admin by default anyway, especially not on Windows XP. And then, *if* you're running an admin session, you usually want admin rights. What's the advantage of faking you don't have these rights? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
