I am a network administrator.
We have several users here at work who cannot have administrative rights to their computers by policy.
I have a piece of software that requires users to be logged in as administrators.
As a test, I created a local user on a spare PC in my office that has administrative rights to that PC. I logged in as one of our users. When I right-click on the shortcut to the software that requires administrative rights, I can click "Run As", choose this created user, type in the password, and run the software with administrative rights.
That works fine.
The catch is that I don't want the users to know this created user's name or password. Is there a way to set up a program such that it automatically runs as this created administrator and does not prompt the users for this administrator's name and password? I want this to be so transparent to the users that they think they're running the program as themselves.
We have several users here at work who cannot have administrative rights to their computers by policy.
I have a piece of software that requires users to be logged in as administrators.
As a test, I created a local user on a spare PC in my office that has administrative rights to that PC. I logged in as one of our users. When I right-click on the shortcut to the software that requires administrative rights, I can click "Run As", choose this created user, type in the password, and run the software with administrative rights.
That works fine.
The catch is that I don't want the users to know this created user's name or password. Is there a way to set up a program such that it automatically runs as this created administrator and does not prompt the users for this administrator's name and password? I want this to be so transparent to the users that they think they're running the program as themselves.