I just did a fresh install on Vista, and confirmed the following 1) From an administrator account, it works out-of-the-box. Beautiful. 2) From a regular user account, clicking the x-server or shell icons, produces a UAC prompt.
The behavior, without changing anything whatsoever from the installed state, is that the regular user cannot run x or the bash shell console window without first entering a password for an administrator account. Q.E.D. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jon TURNEY Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 10:10 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Vista, new install, x server does not start, startxwin.bat missing On 18/02/2010 03:38, Dr. M. C. Nelson wrote: > And that is the problem (server, shell and xterm have to run as administrator). Even if the programs are set to run at elevated privilege, they will still throw up a UAC dialog, and the user will have to type in an administrator password. I think, as I said before, that this is Vista 'functioning as designed'. If you set an application to run as administrator, you will get a UAC prompt. If you tell us what the problems are with the programs which cause them to require administrator privileges, then perhaps we can fix them. -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- 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/ -- 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/
