Monday, August 26, 2002

Run As can provide admin access without revealing passwords - The Run As utility is useful for running legacy apps or for running apps as a different user in Win2K. If user access rights to those apps are limited, however, and you want to protect passwords as much as possible, using Run As can present some challenges. Take, for example, the case of TechRepublic member Ginel Lipan , who wanted to allow users with user-only privileges to run applications that required administrative access. Rather than give the users administrative rights on the workstations so that they could run the programs, Lipan wanted to use Run As to perform the task. The only problem with the idea was that it required an administrative password, which Lipan didn’t want to give out. 11:30:56 AM