On Dec 3 14:32, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Dec 3 13:13, Dave Kilroy wrote: > > On 03/12/2013 10:21, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > >On Dec 2 23:58, Charles Butterfield wrote: > > >>Any suggestions on how to have a shortcut (or something similar) that > > >>runs mintty as admin, but has no global effect on other mintty launches? > > >You seem to have gotten something else wrong here. If the shortcut has > > >the "run as admin" flag, it only affects this shortcut. I have two > > >shortcuts on the desktop, one called "Cygwin64 Terminal", the other one > > >"Cygwin64 Admin". > > I think the difference is where you select the checkbox. There's one > > in Compatibility->Privilege Level->Run as admin, and another in > > Shortcut->Advanced->Run as admin. The compatibility one is telling > > windows that to execute mintty correctly it needs admin privileges, > > so it always runs mintty this way. The latter is the one that just > > affects the shortcut. > > Spot on. I guess that's it. I completely forgot about the "run as > admin" switch in the compatibility tab, only seeing the "run as admin" > switch in the shortcut's advanced settings.
...despite Charles explicitely mentioning the compatibility thingy. Duh. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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