[K12OSN] desktop.ini

[Kevin Verheyen]

This program will allow you to run any file with a predefined passwd  
as Admin

http://www.lansweeper.com/ls/lsrunasold.aspx

Kevin

Op 12-aug-05, om 23:13 heeft Kevin Verheyen het volgende geschreven:

> Would the command 'Runas' do the magic trick in the batch file?
>
> example
>
> runas Administartor:passwd GROUPPOL.bat
>
> from out of the startup.bat file?
>
> Kevin
>
>
>
> Op 12-aug-05, om 21:43 heeft Rusty Pywtorak het volgende geschreven:
>
>
>> Yes, but the problem you will run into is that the user does not have
>> permission to change the policy sections of the registry because
>> otherwise policies would be ineffective -- the user could just go  
>> into
>> the registry themselves and change it to get around it. Thus even  
>> though
>> we are talking about HKeyCurrentUser, which belongs to the user, the
>> permissions on the policy sections of the registry are locked down to
>> prevent the user from making changes.
>>
>> Trying to change that setting via a script will fail because the  
>> script
>> runs in the security context of the user -- and the user doesn't have
>> permission to change it (unless they happen to be a member of the  
>> local
>> admins group). To verify this open up the registry editor and try to
>> change that registry key manually.
>>
>> What you need is to be able to run your script in the security  
>> context
>> of another user. I suppose there are some third party tools to do  
>> that
>> -- never gone searching for it, however.
>>
>> The way it is designed to work is that policy settings are controlled
>> through group policy -- which unfortunately locks you into Microsoft
>> because group policy requires active directory. Personally, in the  
>> same
>> way that Samba separates file sharing from Windows, I'd like to see
>> something similar for group policy.
>>
>> I know the open source community can 'out-microsoft' microsoft. Are
>> there any open source alternatives to group policy??
>>
>> Rusty Pywtorak
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com] On
>> Behalf Of Kevin Verheyen
>> Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 12:11 PM
>> To: Support list for opensource software in schools.
>> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] desktop.ini
>>
>> And this looks like the user key to modify
>>
>> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\
>> Windows\
>> CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\
>> NoInstrumentation
>> REG_DWORD = (1)
>>
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