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How to give my C# app administrative rights? manifest file

Hi. I'm having some trouble with my C# app that uses win32_networkingadapterconfig. The problem is that I can't use the altering functions in win32_networkingadapterconfig when I use the app on a user that dont have admin rights. I have tried to "run as administrator", but no luck. And I have tried to make a manifestfile with this conte...

Safe to use Google Apps Engine for new ideas? What rights am I giving up?

Hey. I am planing to start on a new project which has a kinda unique idea. Usually I develop things on my own server, but since that is far inferior to the Google apps engine solution i am thinking of switching platforms. However, I am worried that if I start to develop and if becomes "a success" (atleast within my standards), I have p...

What are the minimum user permissions required to install a Windows service?

What are the minimum user permissions required to install a Windows service? ...

Give a user rights to a specific node in Drupal

I'd like the user "student" to be assigned to a content type "Projectgroup". I can do this by adding a user reference to the Projectgroup content type form. Example: Projectgroup = Beta testers Students (user referenced) = Kim, Joel, John. When Kim logs in, she should only be able to post as "Beta testers". How can i make sure when ...

[Drupal] How do I give a specific user editing rights to a specific node?

How do I give a specific user editing rights to a specific node? I have a user role named "Student". Multiple users have that role, only a few of them can edit a node. How can I realise this? ...

How to run an executable as a system service?

I've got a file and data distribution application written in .NET 2.0 I've written similar to Steam. This application will need to run in Windows 7 and will need to be able to run and install applications that require administrator rights. However the users will not have admin rights. My thought was to run the application as a Local Sy...

Is there a way to check if a user has specific rights?

In my application I'm using ntrights.exe, that is part of Windows Resource Kit, to grant and revoke a specific user right. For example to grant a user "Log on as a server" right, I execute using shell object following command: ntrights -u User +r SeServiceLogonRight However ntrights doesn't allow you to check if a user has a specific...

Team System web access rights

We're using team system to control our developement (product backlog items, sprint backlog items etc). It's a pretty nice tool but we wanted to allow other users to be able add bugs and new feature suggestions WITHOUT letting them mess with the actual development bits. I can set these guys up so they add the work items they need but ...

Checking if app can run without admin rights?

Hello To get Windows users to log on as regular users instead of admin, I need to check that all their applications run OK with limited rights. Is there an application specifically aimed at checking that an application can run with limited rights, or is SysInternals' Process Monitor what everyone uses for this purpose? Thank you. ...

How to give process specific privileges in windows

Hi, I am writing some testing software that receives some source code, compiles it on the server, executes it, forward input from the database, catches output and compares it with one in the database to see if it is correct. The problem is that source code can be anything (it is written in c/c++ and compiled with visual studio cl), so ...

IPC (.NET): Which user rights would I need to create an IPC channel?

I have a program here (with access to the source code, no problem there) that I need to install on many customers PCs. All of them still run under good old XP (SP3), but on a few (very few) of them I can't start the application, because when I try opening the IPC channel (I need that for a few service functions) I get an "Access denied"...

Delphi: Can I start short apps from a service?

Hi! I created a scheduler. It was threaded first, but because of memory leaks and separatable tasks I changed to subprocesses. The service starts the subprocesses by N minutes or in determined time. I finished with all thing, but I'm not sure now that service can start an application or not? I want to use this as processfarm - as Post...

Windows 7 Service differences between local system and local service

Hi, I have a rather complicated toolchain so prepare for a lengthy post until getting to the problem: I managed to get PDFCreator and a virtual PDF creating printer under Windows 7 running in server mode as a service. Next step in the process is PDFCreator calling a VBScript after the PDF is created. The script uploads the PDF to our s...

Limited acess right to backup postgresql

We are using pg_dumpall to make backups of our psql database. We have user with superuser rights that runs pg_dumpall. Everything works fine. The thing that in my opinin can be better is to limit that users rights (just in case). So, my question is - can we create some user without superuser rights but with the rigtes to use pg_dumpall ...

Django AdminSite: Display only a subset in ManyToManyField depending on user

Howdy, I'm using the admin site in django. By default there are the user and group models. I enabled to select the groups when creating a new user and I now want to filter the set of assignable groups depending on the current user. E.g. if the user is a superuser he is able to assign all groups. If he's within a subgroup, he can only as...

Append only file

Hello, I'm trying to realize a file. Each event just appends one line to the file. So far this is a no brainer. The hard part is that several users are supposed to be able to add entries to that file but no one is supposed to be able to modify or delete existing ones. Can I somehow enforce this using file access rights? I'm using Linux....

Install WinForms application without admin rights

I develop a Windows Forms application using VS 2008. Application will be deployed in Corporate Environment: a network (VPN, LAN) is in several cities, many PC clients Windows XP; and there is a only Server Win2003, with several WCF Services, Windows Service, shared folders, and Database that use the WinForms app. Network is WORKGROUP, no...

Assigning Access rights on a file in VSS

how can i assign modify rights on the a file on VSS to a particular user in a team and the rest of team have ready only rights. For Example, there are 4 users in the VSS and I want that one user should only be edit a particular file and the others 3 user should only be view that file, can't not edit it. Thanks in Advance Hussain ...

PostgreSQL, how can i restrict access to code in a function for a user?

I found out how to deny all access to tables for user in a schema. REVOKE ALL PRIVILEGES ON SCHEMA test FROM user; But what can i do to restrict access to all functions in a schema, so that user couldn't read the code? I was trying this: REVOKE ALL ON FUNCTION test.test_function(text) FROM user; Yes, it has restricted the ability ...

Sitecore Access rights for a custom role not behaving as i expected

I am having trouble with setting the secutrity rights for the Media Library of one of our customers. For the "Sitecore Client Authoring" role I have specifed that it has only read access for the entire Media Library. I needed to "unprotect" items to do this but the Access Viewer tells I have succeeded. Subsequently I wanted to specify ac...