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Created on 2019-06-30 19:52 by jaraco, last changed 2022-04-11 14:59 by admin. This issue is now closed.
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| msg346935 - (view) | Author: Jason R. Coombs (jaraco) *  |
Date: 2019-06-30 19:52 | |
A few years ago, Windows [announced more lenient support for creating symbolic links](). This more lenient support requires the caller to pass a flag in the API. Neither the blog post nor the API docs give any indication of why one would not ever pass that flag, and passing it will enable symlink to work in more cases that work in Unix, so I believe Python should set the SYMBOLIC_LINK_FLAG_ALLOW_UNPRIVILEGED_CREATE flag. |
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| msg346936 - (view) | Author: Jason R. Coombs (jaraco) * |
Date: 2019-06-30 19:53 | |
The missing reference above should be https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2016/12/02/symlinks-windows-10/#iqm9GJhlyWhcM78e.97 |
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| msg346938 - (view) | Author: Jason R. Coombs (jaraco) * |
Date: 2019-06-30 19:59 | |
I see looking at the code and docs now that this work was done for Python 3.8. |
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| msg346940 - (view) | Author: Eryk Sun (eryksun) *  |
Date: 2019-06-30 20:22 | |
FYI, this only works when the system is in developer mode. If you want authenticated users and non-elevated administrators to have symlink rights in applications that haven't been updated to use this flag, or without enabling developer mode, grant the right to create symbolic links to the "Authenticated Users" (S-1-5-11) well-known group. |
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| Date | User | Action | Args |
| 2022-04-11 14:59:17 | admin | set | github: 81634 |
| 2019-06-30 20:22:54 | eryksun | set | nosy:
+ eryksun messages: + msg346940 |
| 2019-06-30 19:59:41 | jaraco | set | status: open -> closed resolution: works for me messages: + msg346938 stage: resolved |
| 2019-06-30 19:53:17 | jaraco | set | messages: + msg346936 |
| 2019-06-30 19:52:50 | jaraco | create | |