Re: Removing Local Admin Rights...

From: Barrie Dempster (barrie_at_reboot-robot.net)
Date: 05/27/04

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    To: KEN MORRIS <KMORRIS@kpl.org>
    
    

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    KEN MORRIS wrote:
    | Jay,
    | First thing I would do would be to check to see if there is any non-M$
    | programs installed that are needed in the organization. IF there are,
    | thoroughly test those programs under both O/S before removing local admin
    | rights.
    | Some software will run only under local admin user accounts. I have tried
    | here and found that in certain programs there is no work around other than
    | local admin to allow users to run the software. Even setting them as power
    | users does not work.
    | Regards,
    | Ken

    Ken,
    Generally the local admin rights requirements on machines with 3rd party
    software is fixable by just changing permissions on files and
    keys/values in the registry, I can't think of a single instance where
    this wouldn't work and I've yet to find a program I couldn't setup for
    an ordinary user to run.

    I find the best thing to do is run filemon and regmon on the suspect
    program and check what its accessing and then give the user permission
    to these keys (don't give write where only read is needed though). Quite
    often you will find that the software vendors are willing to give you
    the info on these keys and values themselves to save you the trouble of
    researching it.

    If you need more help on this let me know.

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    Barrie Dempster

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