Markus Schönhaber wrote: > > Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > > Markus Schönhaber wrote: > >>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? > > > > No, I'm not too familiar with it. I just know that it has been there when > I expected it to be. > Have quickly looked into the MSDN Lib and found nothing. So getting the > exact specification will take some research. > Here are some unproven opinions of mine (beware! yet to be verified): > - Since setup.exe triggered this mechanism on a German windows, I doubt > that this feautre is language-dependent. > - To work properly, I think this feature relies on the secondary locon > service (Run As service in W2k?). So if the dialog doesn't appear on some > machine - even though the user has *not* at least power user rights - the > first thing I'd check is wether the secondary logon service is running. > - As mentioned above, I seem to remember that the dialog will not appear > if you are power user or administrator (to me only the latter was obvious). > > > 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. > > > The Group is Users. Seems OK to me. OK, thanks for the information, Markus. So far so good.
I recall another problem that somebody had reported after answering "yes". The chown command in a postinstall script had no effect. That would mean that at, at least at that site, the program was lacking the Restore privilege. To test if this is a prevalent problem, a simple test is to put a testchown.sh script in /etc/postinstall . setup will then run it and we can see if the command worked. 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/
