Automation and user rights

[Thad Brister]

Is there any way to configure a particular program to
always run with administrative rights, wihtout the user
needing an administrator password?

One of the users in our network need sadministrative
rights to properly run a particular program. However, we
do not want the user to have admin rights in any other
case...only for the running of this program. We could use
runas...but I can't find anyway to automate runas so the
user doesn't have to enter the password. Anyone have any
ideas?

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

Is there any way to configure a particular program to
always run with administrative rights, wihtout the user
needing an administrator password?

One of the users in our network need sadministrative
rights to properly run a particular program. However, we
do not want the user to have admin rights in any other
case...only for the running of this program. We could use
runas...but I can't find anyway to automate runas so the
user doesn't have to enter the password. Anyone have any
ideas?

Hi


Using the /savecred switch (only for WinXP Pro, not Home) is
maybe an option:

http://groups.google.com/groups?as_...microsoft.public.windowsxp.*&lr=lang_en&hl=en

and from "runas /?":

/savecred to use credentials previously saved by the user.
This option is not available on Windows XP Home Edition
and will be ignored.

Note that this is not a very safe solution, because the user
can then run any program using the /savecred switch later on.


Some better solutions:

You might get something to work using a Runas wrapper utility or
similar, take a look here:

http://groups.google.com/[email protected]


You may also want to check NeoExec ( http://www.neovalens.com ), the
main difference is that it does not require the use of a second account,
as all RunAs derivative require.