* Eliot Moss (Sun, 13 Oct 2013 23:33:23 -0400) > I am upgrading from one laptop to another, the old one running > Windows 7 and the new one Windows 8. On the old one, I disabled > UAC and bash appears to run with admin privileges (which is what > I normally want). In particular, if I say 'groups' then Administrators > appears among the groups. > > On the Windows 8 machine, I have set UAC to the lowest value, but > 'groups' does not include Administrators, even though the current > user is an admin.
You cannot disable UAC this way in Windows 8 anymore. You have to disable "Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode" group policy: <http://windows.microsoft.com/is-is/windows7/how-do-i-change-the- behavior-of-user-account-control-by-using-group-policy> Thorsten -- 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
