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Re: File Permissions on Vista [could be "how to deal with UAC"?]


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Arnaud Legout wrote:
> I forgot to CC the mailing list.
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Subject:
> Re: file permissions on vista
> From:
> Arnaud Legout <Arnaud.Legout@sophia.inria.fr>
> Date:
> Tue, 29 May 2007 09:46:52 +0200
> To:
> morgan gangwere <0.fractalus@gmail.com>
> 
> To:
> morgan gangwere <0.fractalus@gmail.com>
> 
> 
> Hello Morgan,
> 
> morgan gangwere wrote:
>> 1 - Turn Off UAC
>>   
> 
> I turned it off, and now when I create a file, the access rights are u+rwx.
> Also the user is Administrator, whereas it was my username when I have
> UAC on.
> So I suppose that Brian has UAC turned off.
> 
> I will definitively have to read a documentation on UAC and vista
> security model in general
> to understand how flexible and configurable it is.
> Otherwise, I sure that I will face other side effects.
> 
> Thanks for the tip.
> 
> Arnaud.

Cant we make setup.exe check if its Vista? i mean, its an environment
variable!

UAC does some odd things to user access and permissions.

Just a thought,
Morgan Gangwere

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