Run app as admin without knowing password

[Nathan Hawk]

Is it possible to allow a limited user to run a specified
application as Admin (or another user)?
I know that you can go to a shortcut's properties and go
to Advanced and set "Run with different credentials".
But as far as I know this always prompts for a password.
Obviously, I do not want to give out the admin password.
I would like to be able to do the equivalent of providing
an Admin security level shortcut to a specific app to a
specific user (possibly by encrypting the user's password
in the shortcut). Is this too much to ask?
Current Scenario:
5 year old has an older game that requires copying driver
to c:\Windows folder at runtime. I do not want to set up
5 year old as System Admin, nor do I want to give away
password, but I do want her to be able to play her game.
What are my options?

 

[Torgeir Bakken (MVP)]

Is it possible to allow a limited user to run a specified
application as Admin (or another user)?
I know that you can go to a shortcut's properties and go
to Advanced and set "Run with different credentials".
But as far as I know this always prompts for a password.
Obviously, I do not want to give out the admin password.
I would like to be able to do the equivalent of providing
an Admin security level shortcut to a specific app to a
specific user (possibly by encrypting the user's password
in the shortcut). Is this too much to ask?
Current Scenario:
5 year old has an older game that requires copying driver
to c:\Windows folder at runtime. I do not want to set up
5 year old as System Admin, nor do I want to give away
password, but I do want her to be able to play her game.
What are my options?

Hi

Some 3rd party RunAs solutions that "hides" (encrypt) username/password
are listed in the link below (buy solutions). Can be run from network shares,
so nothing needs to be installed on the client computers.

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


And from a recent post by Peter M.:

<quote>
I am currently using AutoIt V3 (http://www.hiddensoft.com/autoit3/)
It includes a command to run a command as a special user. You can
write a simple script and then compile it with autoit as an executable.
Protect this executable with a password and you are done.

AutoIt V3 ist still beta and under development, but the actual version
is stable and the functions you need (runasadmin,regwrite...) are
already implemented and working.
</quote>