On Wed, 29 May 2024 at 15:41, Bill Stewart via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote: > > On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 9:36 PM Dan Shelton wrote: > > > > Does anyone know how to run Windows explorer.exe with Cygwin > > /bin/newgrp, so all new files created by explorer.exe use that new > > primary group, and all programs launched by explorer.exe use that same > > primary group? > > > > As I understand it, Explorer always starts unelevated as the current user. > This is by design for security reasons. >
But does WinSG elevate the process? I thought it just takes an existing group from within the token, and sets it as the primary group. Dan -- Dan Shelton - Cluster Specialist Win/Lin/Bsd -- 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
