Running a program as somebody else

Are you running XP Home or Professional? The program could
be installed in a new folder that could be shared with your
limited user, or if you have XP Pro, you can set program
access for different classes of users [Power User, etc.]


"Byte" <Byte.TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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| "bxb7668" wrote:
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| > Is it possible for user A to run a application using the
login
| > credentials of user B without their knowing the password
of user B? We
| > need user A to be able to run a program with elevated
privileges but
| > do not want to give them the password. The only option
that I've been
| > able to find is to set up runas, but that requires the
user to know
| > the password.
| >
| > Brian Bygland
| >
| >
| >

bxb7668 wrote:

> We're running Win XP Pro. The folder access is not the problem. They
> can get to it. The problem is that the application requires you to be
> either the database owner or server Administrator to perform certain
> commands. We want to put a specific one of those commands in a script
> which the user can read and execute but cannot change. We want the
> users to then be able to execute that script as if they were the
> database owner. Obviously we do not want them to be able to actually
> log on as the database owner other than in the context of running this
> script. On UNIX I'm able to create scripts that run SETUID. I would
> like to be able to do that in Windows.

Look at sudoWn. I was looking for an equivalent of sudo for Windows and
came across this. I haven't tried it, so caveat emptor and YMMV and all
that. Even though as you well know sudo is supposed to be used
temporarily, perhaps you can configure the time sudoWn is active.

http://sudown.mine.nu/

Malke
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Which Windows XP? Have you tried changing the Permissions on the
applications.

"bxb7668" <bxb7668.TakeThisOut@notboeing.notcom> wrote in message
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> Is it possible for user A to run a application using the login credentials
> of user B without their knowing the password of user B? We need user A to
> be able to run a program with elevated privileges but do not want to give
> them the password. The only option that I've been able to find is to set
> up runas, but that requires the user to know the password.
>
> Brian Bygland
>

You should be able to assign ownership to that user or group and setup the
permissions correclty. You can also enable audit, to monitor attemps to make
changes or set the file as read-only.


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"NewScience" wrote:

> Which Windows XP? Have you tried changing the Permissions on the
> applications.
>
> "bxb7668" <bxb7668.RemoveThis@notboeing.notcom> wrote in message
> news:OIRWmE%235GHA.1012@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> > Is it possible for user A to run a application using the login credentials
> > of user B without their knowing the password of user B? We need user A to
> > be able to run a program with elevated privileges but do not want to give
> > them the password. The only option that I've been able to find is to set
> > up runas, but that requires the user to know the password.
> >
> > Brian Bygland
> >
>
>
>

"bxb7668" <bxb7668.TakeThisOut@notboeing.notcom> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:OIRWmE%235GHA.1012@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Is it possible for user A to run a application using the login credentials
> of user B without their knowing the password of user B? We need user A to
> be able to run a program with elevated privileges but do not want to give
> them the password. The only option that I've been able to find is to set
> up runas, but that requires the user to know the password.
>
> Brian Bygland
>

Hi
you find a simple solution on www.robotronic.de/runasspcen.html
it is a tool like runas but the password and other login information are in
an encrypt file.