Re: Tortoise is not handling Win7 UAC system screen notofications

On 19.01.2012 13:17, KLM wrote:
> I need to checkout to the C:\Program Files directory whilst it's
> controlled by UAC. It looks like it TortoiseSVN cannot handle the UAC
> message about providing the Admin rights.

The UAC prompt is nothing an app can "handle" as you put it. An app has
to mark itself to run with elevated privileges or start itself new with
elevated privileges - the UAC prompt is then shown by the OS. An app can
not show that prompt itself.
That's the whole point, otherwise the UAC would be useless.

Since TSVN is not an app that requires such privileges it isn't marked
as such and the OS does not show the UAC prompt.
If it were marked to require elevated privileges, the UAC prompt would
appear for every single command.

> Any plans to add this feature in next releases?

No plans at all, no.
First, this would have to be implemented in the svn library, not TSVN
since it's the library that writes the files.
Second, there's a reason you don't have write access to some folders.
Maybe because you just shouldn't put files there to work with but only
when installing, maybe the folder belongs to another user.

Stefan

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