Re: setup.exe now requires administrator privileges

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin 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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