On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 08:00:00PM -0800, Jason Malinowski wrote:
> Windows Vista and later extended symlinks to be proper residents of the
> filesystem. NTFS junction points are still around. Look at mklink /? and
> you'll see you can make all three. The equivalent API is CreateSymbolicLink.
>
> Note the default security policy for Vista and Win7 enforces that only those
> in the Administrators group can create symlinks (see Local Security Policy >
> Local Polices > User Rights Assignment), and so those running with UAC on
> would have to elevate in order to use this. Non-admins could not use it at
> all unless their administrators adjusted security policy, which is not
> likely to be the case. So you'd have a pretty bad experience for many users
> no matter what you try.
Thanks for the info. I guess we should tell people who need working
symlinks to simply switch to UNIX-like systems then, or to ask microsoft
to provide another type of symlink that can actually be used.
Stefan
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