Elevated Privileges

From: Jeff Smyrski (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/29/04 

Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 06:06:49 -0700

Is there a way to allow a program / dll to always run
with elevated
privileges. I have a software vendor that has provided
us with programs,
one in particular that is a dll that generates htm code
for a web session.
The way that the program is supposed to work, is that the
user will make a
request to retrieve an archived/scanned document from a
database. The
interface for that function is controlled in a dll loaded
to the
Windows\System32 folder. The dll, goes fetches the
image, and then converts
the image to an HTM web page. The problem is that the
dll is doing all of
this work in the System32 folder, which unless you are a
power user locally,
or higher, you can not create in the system32 folder.
Until they fix the
bug (which by the way does not happen in windows 2000 or
NT, why I don't
know) but until they fix the bug, I need to have a
workaround for this
problem without giving all of my users Power User rights
locally. They log
into a domain, that restricts many things on the user's
workstation
including the installation of software, and by default XP
limits the
permissions for users, to only read to the system32
folder. The dll is
basically using the system32 folder as a temp folder, and
the htm document
is discarded after the inquiry has been executed. The
file names are also
random in that they are always prefaced with a 32 digit
string.htm

Is there a way to allow only that dll to execute whenever
it is called with
elevated privileges, or is there another way to make this
work, that perhaps
I have not thought of...

Thanks.

Jeff Smyrski

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