[PATCH setup 06/11] Enable SeCreateSymbolicLink privilege

Jon Turney jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Tue Sep 14 11:53:28 GMT 2021


On 11/08/2021 09:46, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On Aug 10 18:02, Jon Turney wrote:
>> I'm not sure if SeCreateSymbolicLink privilege can get removed by UAC
>> filtering, but to make sure to enable it, if we can.
> 
> I'm not sure this is required.  This is one of the privileges which is
> enabled automatically on usage if it's present in the token and not
> marked as "deny only".  UAC removes the privilege entirely from the
> token, so you can't enable it in that case.

Yes, looking into this nonsense a bit more, that's correct.

I'll change this to just log the availability of that privilege.



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