Automatic RUNAS for applications??

[Jon Schwartz]

I have a couple of programs that work fine as Power User,
not as user. I know of RUNAS which works fine for the
program but I don't want the user to login as the power
user everytime the user wants to launch the program.

Any suggestions

thanks,
jon

 

[Oli Restorick [MVP]]

The best course of action is to find out what the application actually
requires (normally change permissions on a particular directory or
permissions to write to a registry key in HKLM).

You then use Explorer, cacls.exe or group policy to change the permissions
on the folder/files. Or, for registry keys, regedt32.exe is the tool for
the job, or group policy.

Two great tools for working out which files and keys a program is accessing
are RegMon and FileMon from www.sysinternals.com.

Hope this helps

Oli