User Accounts and Software Conflicts

[Jorist]

I have a several computers on our network that the users are only set with
user access. Unfortunately there is some software that they need to use that
will not operate correctly with only user access. Is there anyway that I can
specify the software to run with a different access than the user has?

Any help would be appreciated.

John

 

[Peter Ericson]

Yes, in a way. If you right-click on the shortcut of the program in
question, select Properties > Advanced, you'll find a checkbox called
"Run with different credentials." If you check it you will be asked for
the user name and password of the user you would like to run the program
as. This presupposes that you have an additional account with the
desired rights that the users can use.

If you only want to run a program as another user once, press Shift on
the keyboard and right-click on the shortcut, and there will be a new
option there: "Run as."

---Peter Ericson

 

[IBTerry [MSFT]]

RunAs is a good solution, but it requires the end user to know the password
for another account that has ADMIN level rights.
You might want to try using REGMON and FILEMON from sysinternals to try to
determine where the application is failing when run as a regular user. It
may be a matter of changing ACLS on a couple of registry keys.

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/utilities.shtml

IBTerry [MSFT]
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

 

[Jorist]

The solution I found was to change the permissions on the folders of the
specific programs that the user needed to use. Any thoughts?

 

[Kent W. England [MVP]]

If your game or application works with admin accounts, but not with
limited accounts, you can fix it to allow limited users to access the
program files folder with "change" capability rather than "read" which
is the default.

C:\>cacls "Program Files\appfolder" /e /t /p "users:c"

where "appfolder" is the folder where the application is installed.

If you wish to undo these changes, then run

C:\>cacls "Program Files\appfolder" /e /t /p "users:r"

If you still have a problem with running the program or saving settings
on limited accounts, you may need to change permissions on the registry
keys. Run regedit.exe and go to HKLM\Software\vendor\app, where
"vendor\app" is the key that the software vendor used for your specific
program. Change the permissions on this key to allow Users full control.