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Two windows cmd scripts that can work together to change permissions for the current user to modify the hosts file. win-hosts-check.cmd check if the permissions on the file are sufficient. If not it will call win-hosts-set.cmd which will trigger the windows permission dialog asking for enough rights to midify the permissions on the hosts file for the current user. See issue agiledivider#40
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Tested on a windows 8 system. Should work on XP onwards. |
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I created two windows cmd scripts that can work together to change permissions for
the current user to modify the hosts file.
the first script
win-hosts-check.cmdchecks if the permissions on the file are sufficient. It can be called from it's directory.If not it will call the second script
win-hosts-set.cmdwhich will trigger the windowspermission dialog asking for enough rights to modify the permissions on
the hosts file for the current user.
See issue #40
Note 1: As those are supporting files I didin't know where to place them. So I create the
cmdsubdirectory. I don't know the correct convetions for those vagrant plugins with those.Note 2: The principle on linux if the permissions are not enough is to sudo out a sed command. Those two script are not aligned with such a principle. Instead those work idempotent and the first script only needs to be called as it will take care to set permissions only if necessary.