windows run as admin what's the difference?

[Ralph DiMola]

If a file owned by user "abc" does not have any privs for  "administrator"
OR "Administrators"(group)... then the only one that can delete the file is
the owner. So running as administrator will not help. This is keep prying
eyes of the sys admin from your files. The sys admin can "take ownership" of
the file manually and do anything they want, but then user "abc" will see
that they no longer own the file. User "abc" now knows that the sys admin
(anyone with admin privs) has diddled their file. User "abc" can tell who
did this by checking the ownership of the file. This is so user "ABC" can
keep a file "protected". As long as they don't give out their password it
either remains protected or a sys admin has taken ownership. If you don't
check your privs and ownerships of sensitive files now and then, a sys admin
could take ownership give you back the privs you need to access it and you
would never know the difference.

Ralph DiMola
IT Director
Evergreen Information Services
rdimola at evergreeninfo.net

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[mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Mark Schonewille
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 10:46 AM
To: How to use LiveCode
Subject: Re: windows run as admin what's the difference?

Hi Ralph,

Is it possible that one logs in as administrator, runs an app and the app
still doesn't have administrator rights? What would cause this and how could
this be solved without choose Run as Administrator from the popup menu after
right-clicking on an app every time you want to start the app?

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On 6 feb 2012, at 16:06, Ralph DiMola wrote:

> If you are logged into an account with admin rights you have the
> "administrators" group which should allow you to do the same as being
logged
> in as "Administrator" in a perfect world. But for example if file has full
> rights for the user "Administrator", but it's "Administrators" group has
> less than full rights(say no delete).... you will unable to delete the
file
> unless you are logged in as administrator.
> 
> Ralph DiMola
> IT Director
> Evergreen Information Services
> rdimola at evergreeninfo.net


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