On Jul 3 23:19, Steven Hartland wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Corinna Vinschen" > >> Works fine for me on 2008 so I assume some local setting which >> disallows this. Did you remove the "Back up privileg and directories" >> privilege from the admin's account, by any chance? > > The info from "whoami /all" indicates that you are correct but this > is appears to be the default as I'm not aware of any changes I've > made in this area >[...] > SeBackupPrivilege Back up files and directories > Disabled
That doesn't mean what you think it means. The user token *has* the backup privilege, it's just disabled. That's actually the default for this privilege, it must be enabled explicitely in a process before the process can make use of this privilege. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
