On Feb 22 16:33, Charles Wilson wrote: > On 2/22/2012 12:48 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > >> On Feb 9 01:09, Charles Wilson wrote: > >>> I've uploaded a csih-0.9.5-1 as a 'test' release. Changes: > >>> > >>> * native/Makefile: Avoid -mno-cygwin and gcc3; use mingw cross compiler. > >>> * native/winProductName.c (GetOSDisplayString): Support > >>> Windows 8 and Windows Server 8. Improve support for various > >>> Microsoft OS products. > >>> * New functions csih_is_windows8(), csih_is_exactly_windows8(), > >>> and csih_is_exactly_windows8server(). > >>> * In csih_account_has_necessary_privileges(), no longer attempt to > >>> validate membership in Administrators group -- the test doesn't > >>> work properly on domains anyway. Just try to set the necessary > >>> rights and report error if the operation fails. Reported by > >>> Corinna Vinschen. > >>> * In csih_create_privileged_user(), don't attempt to check whether > >>> /usr/bin/passwd has the -e option; all versions of passwd shipped > >>> with cygwin-1.7.x support it. Reported by Tom Schutter. > >>> * Fixed bug related to the various existing csih_is_exactly_* > >>> functions. > > > What's the status of this? > > Still in test mode. I haven't heard back from the OP whether this change > to csih fixed his error (and didn't break anything else).
The changes in csih_account_has_necessary_privileges appear to do what they should. Just put it out of testing and see what happens. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader 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
