On Wed, 2013-04-03 at 17:19 +1100, Shaddy Baddah wrote: > 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
Correct. UAC Installer Detection Technology applies only to 32bit executables; without that patch, setup64.exe would not elevate automatically, which we believe would run contrary to what most users are expecting. I have partially reverted that change, so that your renaming circumvention will still work with setup.exe (32bit); if you want this to work with setup64.exe (64bit), I'm afraid you will need to build it yourself. Yaakov
