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Re: Using native symlinks
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 20:55:53 +0200
- Subject: Re: Using native symlinks
- References: <CAGHJv4ftSKS6wR-Uzd9Gfvowqpn-WCQ0U01NexgCpZaYqd-Tow at mail dot gmail dot com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On May 28 14:16, Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
> What permissions do I need for native symlinks to work? According to
> edit rights I have SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege (when checking via an
> elevated shell - i.e. with "Run as Administrator"):
>
> âââ csutclif@bmotec3017201lt ââââ ~ â
> âââ 14:11 ââ>> editrights -u $USER -l
> SeLockMemoryPrivilege
> SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege
>
> However, if I try and create a native symlink it still fails. If
> using the winsymlink:native option I get a "cygwin" symlink, winln
That's "winsymlinks:native" I hope...
> pops up a message stating I need the SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege.
> Not sure if it's relevant or not, but the $USER in this case is a
> domain user, not a local user.
Are you sure it's an elevated shell? `id -G' should contain 544. Is
the filesystem NTFS? Is it a local NTFS or a remote NTFS hosted by a
Vista-or-later OS? If you set CYGWIN=winsymlink
Corinna
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