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Questions tagged [uac]

UAC stands for User Account Control and is a security system present and enabled by default in Microsoft Windows (since Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008) running most tasks as non-administrator and requiring the user to confirm the actions that require administrator privileges.

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Logging in user in Windows 2008 server using LogonUser fails on LogonType LOGON32_LOGON_SERVICE

I am using LogonUser function to logon an account to Windows 2008 R2 server on a domain with clusterring. When using LOGON32_LOGON_INTERACTIVE as LogonType, I successfully login. When using LOGON32_LOGON_SERVICE as LogonType, Login fails,…
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execute .reg from bat silently in windows 7 with UAC

I need to be able to push out registry fixes with AD logon script to Windows 7 systems with UAC enabled. So far I have had no luck accomplishing this using the standard method that worked in XP. regedit.exe /s Is there a way to accomplish this…
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Make Programs and Features 'Change' button prompt for authentication

I am looking for a way to have the 'Change' button in Programs and Features pop a UAC authentication dialog such as when installing an application for the first time. Currently, we don't deploy PowerPoint due to company policy, but users have the…
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Interesting phenomenom with Windows Server 2008 R2 user access controls and NTFS ACLs

One to try, and I'd appreciate any thoughts on this. On a Windows Server 2008 R2 box (or presumably 2008 R1, Windows Vista or Windows 7): i) Logon as an administrator, and create a new NTFS volume ii) Blow away the standard MS ACLS on the root of…
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Windows folder mounted in Unix, unable to touch anything 'permission denied'

I've got a windows system running centos inside a virtual box vm. I have a directory I've shared in windows, and mounted from centos, in fstab, like so: ///head_build /mnt/company-build cifs …
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Group Policy allow login as administrator programatically

We have a line-of-business app written in VB6. When the app starts, it checks a specific network path to see if there any updates to the application. If there are updates, the program logs in as the domain administrator and copies the new files.…
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Can't run Cygwin/X as administrator on windows 7

When I run Cygwin/X as administrator, I get periodic errors when I try to run, e.g., xterm. I can get around this by running as not administrator, but I've been getting these errors when running exim as a service, so I need a better solution. Is…
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How to push an install to windows clients

I need to install a windows service on many windows clients in an AD environment. I'm assuming the company has some sort of client management system installed. The install must be silent and cause no UAC popups to appear on the clients. I have an…
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Determining UAC requirements for legacy .net 1.1 application

We have inherited an old .net 1.1 Asp.net application which, in the installation guide, requires UAC (User Account Control) to be switched off. We have access to the source code but the original developers have long since gone. Can the panel…
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Policy exception for Windows User Account Controls and Update.exe

So... Apparently Windows has a list of filenames that require extra rights to run, included in this list is Update.exe, which happens to be the name of the file I'd like my clients to run without appealing to UAC. I'd like to not give the advice…
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Install Tomcat6 as a service windows vista

I currently am installing Tomcat6 as a windows service that will be controlled by a user account that cannot login, nor is the account a member of any groups. The issue I am seeing is that the service will be installed, but the service stops after…
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Vista cmd.exe fails to run if users and/or auditors group not present

In the current environment there exists a policy where files within %system32% are only allowed to be owned by System and Administrators. An issue has arisen where after converting these permissions cmd.exe is unable to execute. The addition of…
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0x80004005 when performing administrative tasks

We have an AD network, and a group of users has higher privileges than the standard, configured via GPO in Computer Configuration > Policies > Windows Settings > Security Settings > Restricted Groups. One of those users have problems on their…
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How does Windows establish whether application makes changes to device

For applications that trigger the UAC ("Do you want to allow this app to make changes to your device" dialog), which are the characteristics that are detected by Windows in order to decide to trigger UAC? Consider that "Run this program as an…
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Error 1332 while changing folder permissions with cacls

I want to change the user permissions of the folder C:\Program Files\MyProgram so that every user is allowed to write to that folder. I am able to set the corresponding user rights manually within the windows explorer (no problem). Because I have…
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