Apple QuickTime needs privileges?

[Alder]

I don't use QuickTime very often, so I can't really say when this
problem started. I now have the latest version which I installed with
the administrator account, but accounts in the Power Users and Users
groups are unable to use it.

When a user account starts QT or opens a QT associated file, a dialog
pops up asking the user to set the "Connection Speed" to ensure that QT
"works properly". This is the first odd symptom since connection speed
is one of the "Preferences" I specified as Administrator when I
installed QT. The real issue, though, is that when a user does specify
the connection speed QT does not accept it and continues to request it
be set.

The Event Viewer console shows a slew of security failures related to
Privilege Use. An example entry:

Event Type: Failure Audit
Event Source: Security
Event Category: Privilege Use
Event ID: 577
Date: 6/4/2004
Time: 11:40:50 AM
User: KIRALY\<username>
Computer: KIRALY
Description:
Privileged Service Called:
Server: Security
Service: -
Primary User Name: <username>
Primary Domain: KIRALY
Primary Logon ID: (0x0,0x52D777)
Client User Name: -
Client Domain: -
Client Logon ID: -
Privileges: SeIncreaseBasePriorityPrivilege

I'm not sure how to best deal with this, so I'd welcome any suggestions
the group might have.

Thanks,

Alder

 

[Dave]

it looks like qt wants the privilege to increase it's base scheduling
priority. by default this privilege is only given to administrators.

 

[Alder]

Dave wrote::

it looks like qt wants the privilege to increase it's base scheduling
priority. by default this privilege is only given to administrators.

Thanks, Dave.

Should I then grant this privilege on a user-by-user basis, or can I
somehow grant the QT executable the necessary privilege?

TIA,

Alder

 

[Dave]

i think it can be granted to the executable, but don't know how to do that
off hand. it is a relatively safe thing to give to users i would think
since most of them won't know what to do with it even if they knew they had
it... and you can't really break anything too badly, you could make your gui
response horrible if you did something wrong, but it would revert on
rebooting.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

What about temporarily granting users local admin rights, running QT
once/changing the settings as you wish while logged in as the user(s), then
revoking the rights?