temporarily gaining admin rights

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April 12th, 2010, 03:51 PM
gaar321

temporarily gaining admin rights

Hi

Codeing Gurus

Is there any sort of code that can temporarily gain admin rights in a exe
April 12th, 2010, 03:59 PM
Skizmo

Re: temporarily gaining admin rights

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Originally Posted by gaar321

Is there any sort of code that can temporarily gain admin rights in a exe

I hope not, because that would kill the idea behind admin-mode. Right-click the application and use 'run as...' and run it under admin privileges.
April 12th, 2010, 04:15 PM
gaar321

Re: temporarily gaining admin rights

i hope so
April 12th, 2010, 05:33 PM
Lindley

Re: temporarily gaining admin rights

Presumably if there's a way to do it, a prompt of some kind would be required to get an admin username/password.
April 12th, 2010, 05:45 PM
Andreas Masur

Re: temporarily gaining admin rights

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Originally Posted by gaar321

Is there any sort of code that can temporarily gain admin rights in a exe

What for?
April 12th, 2010, 05:58 PM
Paul McKenzie

Re: temporarily gaining admin rights

Quote:

Originally Posted by Andreas Masur

What for?

On that note, it seems to be always the ones with little to no posting history that ask these questions.

Regards,

Paul McKenzie
April 13th, 2010, 03:13 AM
OReubens

Re: temporarily gaining admin rights

the answer is no.

an exe cannot elevate itself to admin priviliges

it can only launch a new exe and request admin priviliges (which will cause the UAC prompt).
OR
it can launch a COM component and create this component with elevated priviliges (which will also cause the UAC prompt). The code in the COM component can then use admin stuff, the code in the application using the COM component still can't do admin stuff itself. it can only do so through the interfaces available in the com component.