RE: local admin vs group policy and apps...

a few points:

1) if these apps are com, you can set what they run as in the component 
services control panel.  There is a procedure for this, so you have to look it 
up
2) if these are simple applications that need admin for remote file access or 
for data access, the pre-compiled app can be re-written to include login 
credentials, etc...

-----Original Message-----
From: Murad Talukdar [mailto:talukdar_m@subway.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 10:11 PM
To: focus-ms@securityfocus.com
Subject: local admin vs group policy and apps...


Hi,
We have two apps (even calling them legacy seems to attribute some
undeserved elegance to them) which must run at admin level to function
properly. I am trying to find out whether the fact that users are allowed to
be local admins, or even given the runas power to run the app can still be
locked out of control panel etc through GPOs. 

I mean, if I let people runas then they know the admin password so can
rescind any GP settings, can't they? How can I shut that possibility out?

Yes I have asked for the possibility of then apps being recoded to function
under power users but the development team are of the starving waif variety
due to under resourcing...this consideration is not high on the list.

Kind Regards
Murad Talukdar




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