Re: Users vs. Power Users

From: Dennis Balogh (posttest@nospam_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/20/03 

From: "Dennis Balogh" <posttest@nospam_yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 22:36:35 +0100

Chuck wrote:

> We have a Terminal Server that we're trying to set up with
> reasonable security. One of our apps absolutely will not
> run properly unless user is a power user. We have done
> security auditing and cannot find any failed object access
> attempts (so it doesn't appear to be NTFS security
> related?)..

I had an app that didn't work properly unless the user was an admin. First I
changed the permissions on the folders used by the program but that didn't
solve it. I then modified the permissions on the register keys associated
with the program through regedt32, and that did the trick for me. 

--
Dennis B.

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