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Elevated privileges are higher privileges, offered by an operating system, usually higher than normal user's privileges.

Elevated privileges are higher privileges, offered by an operating system. They are usually higher than normal user's privileges (for example, administrator privileges are regarded as elevated privileges).

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ExePackage does not run elevated although PerMaschine is set to "yes"

In my WIX-Bundle, i have an ExePackage like the following: It executes a ConsoleApplication which tries to open an write to a HKLM-Registry entry which fails when triggered out of the bundle. In cmd, everything works fine when executed as…
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TortoiseProc Launch failed: The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect

I installed Tortoise on Windows 10 (my user had admin privileges but installer wasn't ran as admin), and when trying to use any tortoise contextual menu, I was getting this error: "TortoiseProc Launch failed: The application has failed to start…
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Is it possible to keep admin persistence in an application?

I want to write a small function which will keep admin persistence in my application. So even after the computer is restarted the application will still have admin privileges. Is this possible to do? Also, if I disable the UAC, will it be re-enabled…
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SAP HANA system privilege and application privilege within the granted_privilege table

My question might be pretty simple and i am not sure about the answer. Looking at the attached image from the granted_privileges table within HANA, I needed to know the following: For the object_type = "SYSTEMPRIVILEGE", "APPLICATIONPRIVILEGE" and…
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In which cases an application should require to be executed as administrator?

I'm wondering in which cases an application should require to be executed as administrator. Are there specific actions that should require this privilege level? As an example... My application (C:\Program Files\MyAppFolder\MyApp.exe) must be able to…
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How do I elevate privileges of a process running on Windows?

How to request admin rights from a user in golang? In principle, I know that on the exe program you can check the Run as administrator checkbox in the properties. But I need an example in code form. So that they can be requested not at the start of…
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what is The poisoned NUL byte, in 1998 and 2014 editions?

I have to make a 10 minutes presentation about "poisoned null-byte (glibc)". I searched a lot about it but I found nothing, I need help please because operating system linux and the memory and process management isn't my thing. here is the original…
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