Re: Local Administrators

[Dave Hull <dphull () KU EDU>]

On 3/27/08 9:47 AM, "Daniel Bennett" <dbennett () PCT EDU> wrote:

> Currently we allow our students to be local administrators on lab computers.
> The reason is that some software needs admin-level access to run.  How do you
> all handle software like that.  I would like to get our students to the
> power-user level.
>  

We don¹t allow anyone to run as Administrator on their own machine. We use
ProcessMonitor from Sysinternals to find what files and registry keys need
to have permissions set to make the software run.

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