Re: [PATCH cygutils 1/1] cygstart: add 'runas' as option to elevate privileges like UAC

Hi Jon,

On 8/21/2025 11:32 AM, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 21/08/2025 10:26, Mark Geisert via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>> Replying to myself...
>>
>> On 8/11/2025 1:22 AM, Mark Geisert via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>> Hi Vadim,
>>>
>> [...]
>>> OK, I follow and agree with your reasoning.  I've applied your 
>>> patches locally and built a cygutils-1.4.17-5 test release.  My usual 
>>> upload workflow doesn't work anymore, likely due to the already- 
>>> announced (on the cygwin-apps list) deprecation of same.  I need to 
>>> work out how to accomplish the upload using current best practices.  
>>> Give me a bit of time please.
>>
>> I've resolved the upload workflow but am having trouble building the 
>> -5 test release package properly.  Just letting the OP know work has 
>> not stopped on this.
> 
> Uh, confused here.
> 
> If this is referring to the recent "stop sftp uploads" discussion, 
> nothing has changed yet (indeed, it is unclear what it could change to).
> 
> So you should be able to continue to work in the way you've been used 
> to. If that's not the case, please let us know what the problem is so we 
> can help you.

I was talking about two different things here, sorry.  The -5 package I 
built (that later proved to be defective) I was unable to 'cygport 
upload'.  I don't have the session log anymore but the problem seemed to 
be a 'cd' command failing right after the sftp session was established.

I assumed the transition away from sftp had already commenced, so I 
worked out how to access the cgit-hosted cygutils repository directly.

Then I discovered the new -5 package was broken and I've been working on 
recovering from that using time slots too small to finish the job.  I 
see what's going on here.. it's the kooky way patches have been handled 
in this project since I took it over.  I finally shot myself in the foot 
with it and am now setting it up better and/or rejiggering it to work 
for this -5 release and fixing it for real when I get back from vacation.
Appreciate the offer of help but this is my thing to fix.  I'll ask for 
help if I get stuck on something.
Thanks & Regards,

..mark