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Is it possible to open Control Panel based applications with raised privileges?
For example, I want to uninstall an application on a users PC whilst they are logged in, but they do not have the rights to do so in the “Add/remove Programs” application. Is it possible to use “Run...
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Give user backup and restore privilege for delprof2?
We are trying to run delprof2 without having to right click and run as administrator. IWhen run on the technician account it says that the user doesnt have backup and restore privilege’s. Is it...
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Why Remove Shell Access for the Apache/Nginx User?
Is it a bad idea to grant shell access to the user account destined to be running Apache/Nginx? I ask because, the Guvnr, in his VPS Bible series, sets up a new user with visudo’d guvnr ALL=(ALL) ALL...
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Efficient privilege separation under Apache2 + PHP 5.3
What’s the preferred way to setup a privilege separated, shared environment with Apache2 security and performance wise? I’d like to run each virtualhost under a different user/group and handle PHP...
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Is there a way to do a “run as” in a command line?
So, we are trying to push out the full .Net Framework 4 to all out client workstations within an Active Directory environment via the login batch file in the SYSVOL folder. I added the following...
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Delegate log off privilege?
Is it possible to delegate the right to log other users off? I’d like to give users the ability to log another user off of a computer, but I’m not willing to make everyone administrators to do so. We...
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Run batch files as administrator user
I have a segment with 100 computers. I am booting each machne from WinPE OS located on a CD. After the OS has finished loading, I want to automatically run a batch file that will copy the CD to the C:...
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Why can I access only the security tab on a server’s printers?
Context: Win7 64-bit client, Windows Server 2003 I log into the server using MSTSC. The server is running Windows Server 2003, 32bit. I call up the list of Printers and Faxes from the Start menu. I...
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Upstart: allowing a normal user to stop and start my custom service
I have got my webserver application starting on boot using upstart. This is the upstart script: # web app node upstart file at /etc/init/webapp.confdescription "web application"start on started...
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How to grant full rights in smb.conf for subnet?
I have following smb.conf: http://pastebin.com/gCchZQvC Situation is that when I’m mapping my shares I need to login using my credentials to have ability to create directories and files. When I’m...
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