Running a program as Admin at startup for regular users (Win2k)

[Yoni]

There is a program that I want run with administrator privileges in the context of an unprivileged user. I want it run at startup (the user's local login), obviously without the user having to type the admin password. How do I do this? Sort of like sudo in *nix except in Windows.

[cefx-]

They do that here at work.
With programs like FixWelch.exe, etc.

I will ask the right people....

[Eibro]

You could create a sort of launcher if none such exists. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/security/security/privileges.asp

[Arta]

runas

[Yoni]

runas

Already thought of that. Unfortunately, it seems that runas requires you to type an admin password every time you run the program, which is exactly what I don't want.

You could create a sort of launcher if none such exists. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/security/security/privileges.asp

Hmm, that URL redirects me to 404

[cefx-]

Even Sudo requires a password.

Sorry, Yoni, nobody I talked to had any ideas except Arta's suggestion.

[Adron]

What do you want to accomplish?

One option is to have a "startup script" that is run by the system account when the computer is started. Not when the user logs on though. And a script that runs as administrator won't be accessing the user's stuff anyway - different registry, different mapped drives, etc.

[Thing]

Scheduled Task set to run at boot time?

[muert0]

Tried playin around in msconfig on that account?

[Yoni]

Scheduled Task set to run at boot time?

Brilliant! I will try that as soon as the room containing said computer frees itself of sleeping people.

Adron: I don't want the program accessing that user's stuff anyway. It's sort of like an interactive service (has a tray icon and all), except it doesn't install itself as a service.

[Adron]

Adron: I don't want the program accessing that user's stuff anyway. It's sort of like an interactive service (has a tray icon and all), except it doesn't install itself as a service.

Srvany (comes with the resource kit) is a Microsoft-supplied generic service process. It's used for running any application as a service. It sounds like just what you need.

[Yoni]

Aha! That will work as well. I had known about instsrv.exe, but not about srvany.exe (and I wondered whether instsrv.exe would ever be useful). This KB article explains.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;137890

Thanks!

(Edit: Fixed link)