Sorry for the late reply. Ran both commands from an elevated shell and it still doesn't work. I see this was discussed before but there was no concrete conclusion. https://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-04/msg00066.html The two options that do work so far are: 1. Run cygwin as administrator 2. Disable UAC altogether (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\EnableLUA=0 in the registry) I use the first option at work and the second one at home. Cheers. On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Kurt Franke <Kurt-Franke@web.de> wrote: > Sky Diver <skydivergm <at> gmail.com> writes: >> ... >>>> Still, how can I get a normal behavior (i.e. normal Windows symlinks >> as produces in winsymlinks:nativestrict mode) in a regular session w/o >> elevation? >>>> You could grant the necessary privilege to your account or to the group Users >> editrights -u sky -a SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege >> or >> editrights -u Users -a SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege >>> regards >> kf >>>>> -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple