Markus Schönhaber wrote: > The way setup behaved is exactly the way I expected it to and the way I > would consider right. But you seem to consider this a problem. Obviously I > did miss the point here - maybe we are talking about different things. > It's not about the "Select Root Install Directory" dialog where you can > select to install for "All Users" or "Just Me", is it?
Nope, see below. > I just started setup under a non-privileged account and XP's mechanism to > show the "Run as Administrator" dialog when starting a program called > "setup.exe" or "install.exe" kicked in. > Maybe this is what you meant? If so - it worked for me. Yes, that's it. You seem to be very familiar with it. Where is it documented? Is it language dependent? The main question is: what's the group of the files (Users or Administrators)? If it's Administrators and Everyone does not have access, then most normal users probably don't have rx access. Pierre -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/