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setup.exe now requires administrator privileges
- From: Shaddy Baddah <lithium-cygwin at shaddybaddah dot name>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 17:19:10 +1100
- Subject: setup.exe now requires administrator privileges
Hi,
I've just run the setup64.exe following a procedure I use to defeat
UAC's privilege elevation based on the "setup" substring. That is I
renamed it to cygpkg64.exe and ran it as a non-privileged user.
I've noticed that this no longer defeats UAC, at least with 2.795 build
of setup64.exe.
Based on my limited understanding of .exe.manifest files, I believe the
problem should be related to this change to Cygwin setup:
http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/setup/setup.exe.manifest?rev=2.4&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=cygwin-apps
with changelog excerpt:
* setup.exe.manifest: Set processorArchitecture to "*".
Add explicit requestedExecutionLevel for 64-bit compatibility.
Am I correct?