On May 29 12:40, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: > On 29 May 2013 11:23, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On May 29 10:33, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: > >> On 29 May 2013 04:39, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> > To workaround that, you can either add yourself to the "Create symbolic > >> > links" right, or you can add the "Users" group if you want to allow > >> > every user to create symlinks. But this requires changing it on all > >> > machines manually, so alternatively you can create a domain policy which > >> > adds the trusted users to this user right on all machines. > >> > >> I tried this approach and I'm still not having any luck with the user > >> being able to create native symbolic links in a non-elevated shell. > > > > What approach? Adding the Users group to the Local Security Policy or > > adding a domain policy? If the latter, did you call gpupdate on the > > client or reboot the client machine to propagate the domain policy? > > I've added the specific domain user in the Local Security Policy as I > am not a domain admin (only an admin on the local machine) and as such > cannot propagate a domain policy change. > > > Also, either way, did you logoff and logon so that the "Create symbolic > > links" user right can be added to your user token? Note that your token > > remains unchanged if you didn't exit from your session. Just changing > > the Policy isn't enough, the OS needs achance to create a new user token > > for you containing the user right. > > I've rebooted the machine since making the change and it has had no > affect. Is there something else I need to do?
I don't know. I have to try (but not today). Did you try to add the "Users" group to the Local Security Policy entry instead? 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
