Re: power user group

From: Drew Cooper [MS] (dcoop@online.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/29/03 

From: "Drew Cooper [MS]" <dcoop@online.microsoft.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 02:25:04 -0800

The app requires an administrator to run. That's bad. :-(

Also bad: any power user who really wants to be an administrator can use a
known hack to become one.

IMHO: Avoid the power users group (if you're interested in security). And
find different software that runs correctly (Yes, I know it's from MSFT). 

--
Drew Cooper [MS]
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
"Denis Wong @ Hong Kong" <wong@tmicha.net> wrote in message
news:003901c2f5bb$416c9600$3301280a@phx.gbl...
> My guess is the permission in the registry.
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Hello all,
> >
> >We have a windows 2000 advanced server that is running
> >citrix metaframe xp. One of the users reported that .pcx
> >documents could not be opened(ms photo editor is the
> >program these open with), I tried with an admin account
> >and it worked. I tried with a test account that just had
> >user rights and it did not work, so it was a permissions
> >thing.I then added my test account to the powerusers
> group
> >on the server and it worked. I would like to not add the
> >user to this group so I went through the local security
> >policies and went to user rights assignment and added my
> >test account to every right assignment the power users
> >group had, removed from the powerusers group and waited a
> >few minutes for the settings to go into affect. the
> >program would not work(the error is no file format can be
> >found in the registry). What does the powerusers group
> >also have that i am missing?
> >
> >Regards, Joe
> >.
> >

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