December 2006
Intermediate to advanced
1312 pages
35h 17m
English
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17.5 Opening a Command Window with Admin Privileges Using MakeMeAdmin.cmd
Developing software as an Administrator, or running daily as one, is a serious security risk. Additionally, it may cause you to miss privilege-level-related issues in your software until late in the development cycle or, worse yet, after the software’s shipped.
However, if you always run as a regular user, you’re unable to do the occasional tasks that do require administrative privileges, such as working with the IIS management snap-in, setting object permissions, or starting/stopping services. You should do the bulk of your work in the basic user security context, but you can’t completely sacrifice productivity by forcing yourself to log into a new account each time you need to do an administrative task.
Aaron Margosis, author of PrivBar and a member of Microsoft’s .NET Security team, has come up with a great tool to help you solve this problem. MakeMeAdmin.cmd spawns a command prompt that runs under your normal user account, but in a completely new login session in which your account has been added to the local system’s Administrators group.
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Tool | MakeMeAdmin.cmd |
Version covered | None given |
Home page | http://blogs.msdn.com/aaron_margosis/archive/2004/07/24/193721.aspx |
Power Tools page | |
Summary | Provides access to a command window with Admin privileges |
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