On Nov 13 11:35, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Nov 12 16:57, Herb Maeder wrote: > > Bum deal. But thanks for the explanation. That clarifies what I was > > seeing. > > Actually there is a way to elevate a console application which is the > manifest file. Unfortunately this only works for executables, not for > scripts. > > I didn't try it myself, but maybe something like this works: > > $ cd /bin > $ cp bash.exe bash-elevated.exe > $ sed 's/nstall\.exe/bash-elevated.exe/g' < install.exe > > bash-elevated.exe.manifest > $ sed '1s/bash/bash-elevated/' < ssh-host-config > ssh-host-config-elevated > $ ssh-host-config-elevated > > Sometimes adding a manifest file to an executable doesn't work immediately > due to some cashing in Windows but basically this should work.
On second thought, this can't work. The manifest file starts the application with an execution level of "asInvoker" which means *not* elevated. Even if you change this to elevated (I don't know the right level string for this off hand), the problem that you won't get an elevation prompt when a process gets started through CreateProcess remains the same. Too bad. The mainfests work in one direction, but they don't in the other. Baeh. 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/
