[GOLDSTAR] Re: [PATCH] setup: allow running as non-admin
Christopher Faylor
cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Sun Nov 10 07:28:00 GMT 2013
On Sat, Nov 09, 2013 at 06:30:50PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>What changed is the way how normal users can install for "just them".
>No name tweak but an option instead. Given what you wrote, an
>installation as normal user right from the net was not possible before,
>so just the method to do it changed slightly. By documenting it
>somewhere, we should be all set, shouldn't we?
So, in other words, an end user will no longer have to rename setup*.exe
to foo.exe to bypass enforced elevation but will, instead, just have to
use a command-line option. Sounds good to me. We can add words for
that to the install.html web page and to the FAQ.
cgf
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