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Posted by Paul Adare on January 25, 2008, 9:57 pm
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>> [Forwarded to Vista Security newsgroup via crosspost.]
>>
>> Bill wrote:
>>> I've read a vague excerpt in a MCTS study guide book and have had a
>>> presenter at a MS event debuting Vista that it is possible for a standard
>>> user logged in with a standard user account to run an application that
>>> requires elevated (admin) priveleges without having the user type in the
>>> username and password of an administrator account. Both, however, were
>>> unable to give me any specifics on how to accomplish this, and my
>>> Internet
>>> searches aren't kicking back anything useful. Could someone tell me how
>>> this can be configured? I've noticed the runas administrator checkbox on
>>> an
>>> exe's properties, but all it seems to do it prompt for username and
>>> password of an admin. I've also noticed the backward compatibility
>>> options, but it seems pretty vague as to how those settings work.
>
>
> How to disable the User Account Control Prompt for certain application:
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946932
Which doesn't elevate silently. All that does is completely suppress the
elevation prompt. If the app needs admin privileges it will fail to execute
correctly. Not a good solution at all.
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Paul Adare
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