Re: Being logged on as admin and user at the same time (in XP)?

From: Herb Martin (news_at_LearnQuick.com)
Date: 01/05/05 

Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 01:30:09 -0600

<gaikokujinkyofusho@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1104816600.854020.226930@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> Hi, i have a security questions of sorts. In XP (I think) there is a
> way that multiple users can be logged in at the same time (Say admin
> and regular user) and you can just switch between the two (kinda). My
> question is, would the admin account be ok if i had it running while i
> was doing most of my stuff in the user account? (using the user account
> so that viruses etc have less chance to nuke my system). Any help or
> suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

RunAs approximates what you describe.

It is much better than staying logged on as the Admin
while doing other stuff (dirrectly) in that same context.

One warning, when you run Explorer you must run the
FIRST instance from the account you wish to use for
it -- or you must restrict yourself to command line and
other tools.

[Reason: Explore is always run as one instance and
the user context is derived from the FIRST window
opened -- this means that if you use Start/Run or any
clicking around while running Explorer as an admin
then you are running the new program (child process)
as the admin too.]

You cannot have be using two accounts on the same
machine concurrently but you can do several things that
approximate that: you can add the user to additional
groups (not recommened for the Admins group) or have
the user explicitly authenticate as another user for the
purpose of access (technically he is only one user in
each context.)

RunAs and even "mapping a network drive" (even against
the same machine as where he is sitting logged on) can
provide means to change users for that access.

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