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The setting behavior of the elevation for standard users has
two options: Prompt for credentials and Automatically deny eleva-
tion requests. With the default setting of Prompt for credentials,
all regular users will be required to provide the password of one
of the administrative accounts on the machine when they attempt
to launch a process that requires administrative rights. For this
reason, it is a serious security risk to have an administrative account
without a password. The Automatically deny elevation requests
option will not permit standard users to ever launch ...
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