Re: Superuser ?

From: Roger Abell [MVP] (mvpNoSpam_at_asu.edu)
Date: 11/09/04 

Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 20:56:57 -0700

I sure hope you were not dupped into giving up admin
credentials . . .
Ususally software will just say, sorry, try again when you
have logged in as an admin, and if it used runas in a direct
way then you would have gotten a prompt from runas for
the password (so, if you try runas and that is not what it
looked like . . . ) 

-- 
Roger Abell
Microsoft MVP (Windows Server System: Security)
MCDBA,  MCSE W2k3+W2k+Nt4
"Retro Bob" <nothinghere@all.com> wrote in message 
news:hvhvo0h6e4or21ltepff070tc72dbvg6nc@4ax.com...
>I went to install some software today and it popped up a request/
> warning "this software may need to be installed as Administrator
> to work properly". It displayed a "login" box which allowed me to
> log in as Administrator. OK... all done.
>
> Here's my question: Is this an win2k I could "superuser" sort of
> capability ? Is there some way I could invoke this capability
> "on the fly" to become an admin when needed without logoff/logon
> as administrator ?
>
> Thanks for any insight,
>

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