From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Cc: 13298-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13298: 24.3.50; Cannot write backup file; backing up in ~\.emacs.d\%backup%~
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 21:11:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83zk0wk71t.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50DF3760.7060500@yandex.ru>
> Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 22:33:04 +0400
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> CC: 13298@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> On 29.12.2012 21:28, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> Why doesn't Emacs try to show the elevation dialog, anyway?
> >
> > The elevation dialog comes from Windows, when it does. Applications
> > don't show it, they just can trigger it by performing operations that
> > require elevation. But UAC behaves strangely when Administrators are
> > involved.
>
> I'm not familiar with Windows API, but I think there's a specific way to
> request the elevation. For example, foobar2000 installer starts up
> normally, but shows the elevation dialog when you click on the "Update"
> button, with the same standard shield icon as in Explorer.
I'm guessing that this foobar2000 restarts itself with elevated level
when you click on "Update". That's the only way I know of to request
elevation programmatically -- it can only be done at process start
time. Once the process started, it has its privileges in the process
token, and that cannot be changed.
> > You could try taking care of this issue by manually taking ownership
> > of the C:\Users\Gutov directory and all of its files and
> > subdirectories. Setting the owner of C:\Users\Gutov to either your
> > user or the Administrators group will probably resolve the problem.
>
> Changing the owner of the directory itself didn't do it (I didn't check
> "replace on all subcontainers"), but changing the owner of each
> problematic file did it. Thanks!
OK, so I guess I can now close this bug. Thanks for helping me test
the solution.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-29 19:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-28 20:43 bug#13298: 24.3.50; Cannot write backup file; backing up in ~\.emacs.d\%backup%~ Dmitry Gutov
2012-12-29 7:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-29 11:25 ` Dmitry Gutov
2012-12-29 12:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-29 13:42 ` Dmitry Gutov
2012-12-29 13:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-29 13:55 ` Dmitry Gutov
2012-12-29 14:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-29 16:05 ` Dmitry Gutov
2012-12-29 16:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-29 17:18 ` Dmitry Gutov
2012-12-29 17:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-29 18:33 ` Dmitry Gutov
2012-12-29 19:11 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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