Ln – NTFS hard/symbolic link command line tool

Re:Ln – NTFS hard/symbolic link command line tool by ygra on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @02:42AM (#13112903)

Hard links and directory junctions (the sort of directory symlinks that existed before Vista) never required administrative privileges.

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Re:Ln – NTFS hard/symbolic link command line tool by tiraniddo on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @05:53AM (#13113686)

Well at least with hard links that's not strictly true. Using official win32 apis you need write permission on the file you're linking to so you can't link to say a system file as a non admin. Try mklink with the /H switch.

Of course that's a bit of a lie, if you use the NtSetInformationFile api you don't need write access :-)

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Re:Ln – NTFS hard/symbolic link command line tool by jaclaz on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @11:15AM (#13115705)

To repeat myself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13095172

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