suid under Win2K?

From: Hendry (bsdkernel2000@yahoo.com)
Date: 03/08/02 

Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 06:10:38 -0700
From: Hendry <bsdkernel2000@yahoo.com>
To: focus-ms@securityfocus.com

greeting,

sorry if this question is off-topic...

I have been asked for help by a friend who run a computer rental
business. Basically, he provide (some) computer games under Win2K, and
these game need an administrator priviledge to run properly.

However, he prefer not to give an administrator account for his
customer, so I try to find a way to do it.

Being from unix background, I know that unix has setuid bit that could
be used to solve this kind of problem (yes, I know setuid is EVIL =P but
hey, it is available)...

what is the solution for Win2K? I would like to give the least
priviledge for the user, but also make it possible for them to run the
games (which somehow need power user/administrator priviledge to run).

Also, is there a way to make a program unkillable (or invisible from
task manager so average user can't "end process" it?)

thanks for any help,

Hendry

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