Okay, I agree we need better information. So, I think I want to start again with a clean install. I understand that the procedure for removing cygwin is to just delete everything. Does it create any registry entries that should be deleted?
Thank you -----Original Message----- From: Jon TURNEY [mailto:jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk] Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 9:24 AM To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Cc: mcnel...@mindspring.com Subject: Re: Cygwin/X and Vista and UAC On 10/02/2010 17:01, Dr. M. C. Nelson wrote: > I am trying to setup Cygwin/X for a Vista machine > > After setting some executables to run as administrator You shouldn't need to do this. Isn't this the reason for your UAC prompt? > and then after > cleaning up some lock files and log files, the x server and applications can > be run by a user with administrator privileges. I think I understand the problem with the log file in this situation, and have a patch (see [1]). But the lock files should be removed when the X server is cleanly shutdown, so there's some bit of information I'm missing here. > BUT, > > 1) The x startup (by any method) throws a UAC prompt > 2) A non-privileged user cannot get past the UAC prompt without the > administrator password > > Perhaps some .manifest files would cure this? I wasn't able to reproduce this problem doing some brief testing on W7 (I don't have access to a Vista system right now) There is a manifest embedded in the XWin application [2], but it doesn't do anything to affect UAC at the moment. Do you have some suggestion as to what you think it should contain? > Are there any other ways to allow a non-privileged user to run cygwin in > vista? [1] http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9778 [2] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/tree/hw/xwin/XWin.exe.manifest -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/