Thanks for the replies Brian & Corinna, I learned a lot. On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 1:48 AM Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com> wrote: > Users in the Administrators group have these privileges in their user > token. Under UAC, both privileges are removed from the token. In an > elevated shell, though, both privileges are present. > > The funny thing here is this: While both privileges are present in the > token, they are disabled by default. > > They have to be enabled explicitely before you can exercise the > privileges. Usually you do this in the same application > programatically.
Now I see... Local administrator Bob reports his User Access Token info (with Windows whoami, not cygwin whoami) C:\>whoami /priv PRIVILEGES INFORMATION ---------------------- Privilege Name ... State ========================================= ... ======== ... SeBackupPrivilege ... Disabled SeRestorePrivilege ... Disabled ... C:\> Thanks very much. John Ruckstuhl -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple