On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 01:43:03PM -0500, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: >Shaddy Baddah sent the following at Thursday, December 22, 2011 5:12 AM >>At this point, I should make a disclosure. To do this as a >>non-Administrator grouped user, I must rename setup.exe to cygpkg.exe. >>This defeats the later Windows releases abilities to automatically >>detect installer applications by their name, and force privilege >>elevation. This is something that I have been meaning to open up a >>discussion about for some time (or may have tried to already, I can't >>recall), but I'll leave it to stand at the moment. > >I would propose that <setup.exe> be renamed on cygwin.com to a name >lacking "setup", install", "inst", etc., so that one no longer needs >to jump through this hoop. If that seems like a good idea, I would >suggest the name <getcygwin.exe>.
1) This has been suggested before. 2) It's amazing that this thread has stayed on topic for this long. Please don't hijack it. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
