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Re: setup.exe now requires administrator privileges
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 12:20:38 +0200
- Subject: Re: setup.exe now requires administrator privileges
- References: <515BC9DE dot 8040607 at shaddybaddah dot name>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Apr 3 17:19, Shaddy Baddah wrote:
> 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?
Probably yes. Yaakov, why is that necessary for 64 bit? Is that
documented somewhere?
Corinna
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