Re: Local Admin rights- RFC

From: James Reather (james.news_at_reather.com)
Date: 03/11/04 

Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 16:08:29 +0100

Mal Osborne wrote:
> The big problem here is usually 3rd party apps. A lot of programs
> require that the user be an administrator to function. It is
> difficult to convince companies not to use applications that are
> poorly written.

...although when I deployed SBS2003 at one site, I discovered that WinFax
Pro 10.0x will run with Power User, rather than Administrator rights. So,
the INTERACTIVE account is a member of each local Power Users group, and so
everyone's a plain old domain user, but get Power User rights when they log
in to a machine.

I certainly helps me sleep at night knowing that the end users aren't all
local adminstrators :-)

James

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