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For those of you that admit to using windows - I've written something to help you out

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toadlife:
I've written a little "program" for Windows that makes running as a limited user in Windows (Winblow$/Windoze to you zealots:D) MUCH easier. I've called in "WinSUDO". WHat it does it allow you to launch programs under your own user account, only with admin permissions.

"But WIndows already has 'runas'!", you say. Yes, 'runas' can be used to run programs as admin when they don't work as a LU, but the problem is when you use it, that program loads the enviroment of the user you launch it as. This means if you browse for a file form a program run using runas, clicking on things like Desktop and My Documents will not show your desktop or MyDocuments folder. Also, some program installers that require admin rights will only put shortcuts the program on the start menu of the user who launched the installer - leaving you, the regular user with no shortcuts to your program.  This program fixes those issues because when you launch the program, it's actually YOU that is launching it, only with an administrator token. This also makes it so you can set a very simple password** on the your LU account, and therefore launch programs as admin very easily without sacrificing security.

**Having a simple password for your LU account is relatively safe, becuase by defualt LU cannot connect remotely to computers or access admin shares.

CHECK IT OUT HERE...

http://home.toadlife.net/blog/weblog.pl?trackback=1

veridicus:
You might want to reconsider, as MS has a patent on the sudo command: http://www.msversus.org/title/patents

toadlife:

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Ask me if I give a fuck.

piratePenguin:

--- Quote from: toadlife ---Ask me if I give a fuck.
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He's offline, so I'll do it.

Do you give a fuck toadlife?

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More 3rd party software, wahey!
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toadlife:

--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---He's offline, so I'll do it.

Do you give a fuck toadlife?

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More 3rd party software, wahey!
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hehe.  :D


NO.

:)

That SUDO patent is obviously invalid anyway.

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