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Re: Utility: winln, a drop-in replacement for ln(1)



Le 06/04/2011 19:39, Daniel Colascione a Ãcrit :
On 4/6/2011 1:26 AM, Andy Koppe wrote:
- Native symbolic links require administrator privileges and aren't
available at all before Vista.

They don't require administrator privilege per se: just SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege, which can be granted to normal user accounts via local security policy. The easiest way to grant SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege is to start gpedit.msc, go down to "Windows Settings"->"Security Settings"->"Local Policies"->"User Rights Assignment", then find "Create symbolic links" and add whatever users and groups you want[1].

unfortunatelly, gpedit.msc isn't available under Windows Vista Home Edition.


however, cygwin provide editright for that purpose, don't remember the windows counterpart ?

editrights -a SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege -a user
should work...

Regards,

Cyrille Lefevre
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