On 28 May 2013 14:55, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > 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...
Correct, I mistyped. >> 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 It works fine if I create the native symlinks in an elevated shell, but does not if I create the native symlinks in a "normal" shell. Is this expected (i.e. does creating native symlinks only work in elevated shells?). In this case the Domain user is a member of the local administrators group on the local machine. This filesystem is a local NTFS hosted on Windows 7. Thanks, Chris -- Chris Sutcliffe http://emergedesktop.org http://www.google.com/profiles/ir0nh34d -- 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
