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| Summary: | Cannot debug file OR package: "elevation required" | ||
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| Product: | projects | Reporter: | zweibieren <zweibieren> |
| Component: | Ant | Assignee: | Milos Kleint <mkleint> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | mmirilovic, zweibieren |
| Priority: | P1 | ||
| Version: | 7.2.1 | ||
| Hardware: | PC | ||
| OS: | Windows 8 x64 | ||
| Issue Type: | DEFECT | Exception Reporter: | |
| Attachments: | stack trace | ||
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Description
zweibieren
2013-01-30 21:27:50 UTC
The same error occurs if I try to RUN a file or project. This is to be handled in the ANT project IMHO (and the same problem can probably occur in Maven as well). please see http://mark.koli.ch/2009/12/uac-prompt-from-java-createprocess-error740-the-requested-operation-requires-elevation.html and http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6410605 it's not about the permissions of the java executables but about the permissions of your user on the computer, please make sure you are running netbeans as administrator. in both ant and maven we IMO don't have direct influence over how the debugged process gets spawned, it's handled by the maven-exec-plugin respectively the java ant task. It may be a bit hasty to mark this bug as "resolved." a) The failure does NOT occur under x86. Even when running as not-an-administrator. b) I WAS running as administrator on the X64 release. And was not able to run or debug any program. c) Requiring that NetBeans be run as an administrator is a poor policy. Running as administrator is a main route of virus infestation. And it would be unpleasant to switch modes just to run NetBeans. I often need to browse the web while running NetBeans. I see that the 704 issue has been unresolved for at least five years now. It is about time for a concerted drive to find a solution, at least for the NetBeans use-case of starting an executable. Oracle. Apache, and NetBeans ought to work with Microsoft to convene a meeting to find some solution. Perhaps Microsoft can create special licensing so a few organizations can offer selected applications that always run as administrator. Or perhaps the notion of sandboxes can be generalized. well, what is your expected behaviour in this case? The first/all Run/Debug would show the blackscreen asking for permissions? running all external processes through cmd /c has it's own set of problems as far as I can remember (and afaik requires you to run the command line always as administrator so the problem remains) My expected behavior is that--even with a non-administrator user--NetBeans can start programs without any confirmation from the user. The user has already given implicit permission by running NetBeans. The above may be impossible with the current UAC. We have to give the program higher permissions than the user. (Remember the SUID bit in Unix? http://www.codecoffee.com/tipsforlinux/articles/028.html) Perhaps we go a bit further and restrict NetBeans so it and its spawn can only write into a limited number of directories. The issue is political and not technical: What is Microsoft willing to do to avoid making development more difficult than necessary? There is a time limit. At some point systems will be entirely 64 bit and "Program Files (x86)" will disappear. At that time the fact that NetBeans cannot execute programs will be a deal-breaker. All this said, with the current NetBeans-Ant system the problem does seem to be in Ant. The ANT bug data base has only one entry that mentions UAC: https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50427 I will add another referring to this current NetBeans bug. |