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>. - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.
