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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
