Vista run as adminstrator

[Jack Russell]

Is there some way I can "debug as administrator" in the same way I can
run as administrator?

Thanks

Jack Russell

 

[Mr. Arnold]

Is there some way I can "debug as administrator" in the same way I can run
as administrator?

What are you talking about? What's the purpose you are seeking?

Run as Administrator is privilege escalation for a program to run with full
admin rights on Vista?

Someone logged on to the computer with Admin rights on Vista is locked down,
and they do not have the unrestricted rights like they had in the previous
versions of the NT classed O/S(s) such has XP or Win 2k.

The same holds true for any program running under Admin or Standard rights.
The programs privileges must be escalated to do certain things.

You start up VS with Run As Administrator, you are a user with Admin rights
logged on to the machine, then there should be no problems in debugging.

 

[Jack Russell]

What are you talking about? What's the purpose you are seeking?

Run as Administrator is privilege escalation for a program to run with
full admin rights on Vista?

Someone logged on to the computer with Admin rights on Vista is locked
down, and they do not have the unrestricted rights like they had in the
previous versions of the NT classed O/S(s) such has XP or Win 2k.

The same holds true for any program running under Admin or Standard
rights. The programs privileges must be escalated to do certain things.

You start up VS with Run As Administrator, you are a user with Admin
rights logged on to the machine, then there should be no problems in
debugging.

My basic problem is that I have a system running on XP which uses
account types (admin and user) to allow the programs users different
options.

I do not think these options require "true" admin rights under Vista but
I have no way any more of differentiating among the two types of user.

If there is no way of doing that can a program escalate its own
privileges and if so how?

Thanks

Jack Russell

 

[Mr. Arnold]

My basic problem is that I have a system running on XP which uses account
types (admin and user) to allow the programs users different options.

I do not think these options require "true" admin rights under Vista but I
have no way any more of differentiating among the two types of user.

If there is no way of doing that can a program escalate its own privileges
and if so how?

On Vista it's called using the Vista UAC (User Account Control) manifest so
the the program can escalate its privileges. You can look it up and see how
to incorporate the Vista UAC manifest in you .Net solution -- use Google.