RE: Executing app with admin privileges

["Dixon, Wayne" <wcdixo () aurora lib il us>]

Additionally, you can set the properties of the program to always
"RunAs", then all the user would have to do is enter in the proper
password....

Wayne
 


-----Original Message-----
From: David Smith [mailto:nich95ds () gmail com] 
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 2:47 PM
To: 'Mario Platt'
Cc: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: RE: Executing app with admin privileges


I'm using Win XP Pro and I have the Run As choice in the menu.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mario Platt [mailto:mplatt () gmail com] 
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 11:50 AM
To: Dummy cerberus
Cc: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: Executing app with admin privileges

Hi,

Making the application "Run as" isn't possible ? On the client side, you
could make the client installer do this.

On 7/20/06, Dummy cerberus <dummycerberus () gmail com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I have come across with the following problem:
>
> I work at the systems department, and we MUST host every stupid 
> application that is developed all over the organisation... most of the

> times with no common criteria at all, neither with common sense.
>
> Now, we have to install a client/server application, and it has been 
> developed in such a way, that the user who executes the client side, 
> has to have "local admin/advanced user" privileges on the desktop 
> where he is executing it...
>
> There's no way to modify that application, so I wonder whether or not 
> there is a tool that could allow me to configure the system in such a 
> way that all the users could execute that application, without giving 
> them "local admin/advanced user" privileges for the whole system (only

> for that stupid application).
>
> I wonder if there's a way to acomplish that wether with AD policies or

> third party tools (better if free ;-)
>
> Thanks in advance, and best regards
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