temporarily gaining admin rights

[gaar321]

Hi

Codeing Gurus

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

[Skizmo]

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.

[gaar321]

i hope so

[Lindley]

Presumably if there's a way to do it, a prompt of some kind would be required to get an admin username/password.

[Andreas Masur]

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

What for?

[Paul McKenzie]

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

[OReubens]

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.