How do I give myself privilege to create symbolic links on Windows 7 logged in as domain user?

I would like to be able to use mklink without the inconvenience of right-clicking on cmd.exe and choosing "Run as Administrator". I am logged in at work as a domain user with local admin privileges, and UAC is enabled.

I have added the following to "Create Symbolic Links" in "User Rights Assignment" in Local Security Policy: Administrators, Users, OURDOMAIN\MyUsername.

I then logged out and back in.

When I type WHOAMI /PRIV it still doesn't show SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege.

What am I doing wrong (or failing to do)?

Klitos Kyriacou

Posted 2015-03-20T16:24:10.613

Reputation: 462

Possible duplicate of How can I create symbolic links in Windows 8.1 without an admin command prompt?

– Ramhound – 2018-04-13T19:58:31.220

Answers

If you're trying to create a symbolic link on a local directory, then it's possible domain policy is overriding the local policy you set.

Alex C. Wolff

Posted 2015-03-20T16:24:10.613

Reputation: 26

Thanks, Wohlfe. Yes, I'm trying to creates purely local symlinks - to a file in my own directory on my C: drive. So is there anything I can do other than ask the network administrator to give me the privilege through a domain policy, even though this is just for use on my local machine? – Klitos Kyriacou – 2015-03-21T17:26:11.133

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Setting Create Symbolic Link privilege in Secpol has no effect if your user is in the Administrator group. This has been answered in quite a few places already. Here's one: How can I create symbolic links in Windows 8.1 without an admin command prompt?

cgchoffman

Posted 2015-03-20T16:24:10.613

Reputation: 11