On May 28 14:16, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: > What permissions do I need for native symlinks to work? According to > edit rights I have SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege (when checking via an > elevated shell - i.e. with "Run as Administrator"): > > ┌─┤ csutclif@bmotec3017201lt ├──┤ ~ │ > └─┤ 14:11 ├─>> editrights -u $USER -l > SeLockMemoryPrivilege > SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege > > However, if I try and create a native symlink it still fails. If > using the winsymlink:native option I get a "cygwin" symlink, winln
That's "winsymlinks:native" I hope... > pops up a message stating I need the SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege. > Not sure if it's relevant or not, but the $USER in this case is a > domain user, not a local user. Are you sure it's an elevated shell? `id -G' should contain 544. Is the filesystem NTFS? Is it a local NTFS or a remote NTFS hosted by a Vista-or-later OS? If you set CYGWIN=winsymlink Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer 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
