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Obtaining Elevated Privileges in Vista

KirkKirk
edited April 2007 in Software
How do I go about doing this? I am set as a system administrator, but sometimes Vista doesn't let me do the most basic tasks... For example, I want to flush my DNS resolver cache (which I tend to do regularly in Windows XP just as a standard practice), and it's not letting me. squiggly.gif

If you don't know what I mean, check out the screenshot below. I know some of you use Vista, so I'm hoping you can help me with this.

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-Kirk
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  • QQ
    When you did Start > Run did it say "This task will be created with administrative privileges"? If not, UAC is running that DOS box as a nonadminstrative user.

    -Q
  • KirkKirk
    Q wrote:
    When you did Start > Run did it say "This task will be created with administrative privileges"? If not, UAC is running that DOS box as a nonadminstrative user.

    -Q
    Uhm... could you clarify that? tongue.gif Just tell me what I need to do...

    -Kirk
  • QQ
    So your running on "New Start Menu" ? There's "run" in there somewhere. Secondly that's a DOS box for all intents and purposes.

    Anyway, the answer is in Windows help.

    -Q
  • KirkKirk
    Ahh, I found it. You have to right click the Command Prompt on the Start Menu, and select "Run as administrator" and then it works out fine. smile.gif
    Solution wrote:
    adminright1rn6.png

    adminright2al6.png

    Posting the solution in case anyone else has this problem.

    -Kirk
  • BlueSunBlueSun
    I really hate that, I tried to create a ghost image of a Vista machine, and it wouldn't access the drives cause it wasn't running as administrator, I had to do the right click > run as administrator thing to get it to work
  • SuperpieSuperpie
    Why did you have to flush the DNS? Were you doing something dirdy >:)
  • QQ
    computer13137 wrote:
    [...] (which I tend to do regularly in Windows XP just as a standard practice)

    Also, you may want to compact your signature a little.

    -Q
  • BODBOD
    Why do it as standard practice? It'd get flushed on every reboot anywya.
  • QQ
    I don't know, it may be one of those OCD things, like I used to compulsively check WU.

    -Q
  • KirkKirk
    Superpie wrote:
    Why did you have to flush the DNS? Were you doing something dirdy >:)
    Umm... what's that got to do with anything? The DNS cache wouldn't even be readable to the average person. Actually, I had changed nameservers on the Halo clan domain, and wanted the new server IP address to take effect quicker. I don't know, BOD, the reboot never seems to fix my DNS cache like flushing it manually.

    -Kirk
  • WipeoutWipeout
    BlueSun wrote:
    I really hate that, I tried to create a ghost image of a Vista machine, and it wouldn't access the drives cause it wasn't running as administrator, I had to do the right click > run as administrator thing to get it to work

    Yeah, its a pisser. They stole that right out of Linux, and man is that ever annoying...
  • nighticenightice
    They stole that right out of Linux, and man is that ever annoying...
    wow.

    just.

    wow.

    ignorance ftl.
  • QQ
    And that post wasn't much better.

    -Q
  • nighticenightice
    True, but it was hard to phrase. I intended to say something like:

    It's not "stolen straight out of Linux". It's one of the better ideas in computer security that's only been used for the past 30 years or so - don't run everything as the user with the highest permissions! If you're restricted in your actions there's far less damage you can accidentally do.
  • WipeoutWipeout
    nightice wrote:
    They stole that right out of Linux, and man is that ever annoying...
    wow.

    just.

    wow.

    ignorance ftl.

    Somehow, I don't think you know what I'm talking about.
  • BODBOD
    I'm not even sure you do
  • QQ
    You mean "sudo" etc? That has been around for ages. I seem to recall 2000 had a "Secondary Logon" svc.

    -Q
  • WipeoutWipeout
    Maybe I don't, but I think most people can get what I'm referring to.
  • BODBOD
    NT had the ablility to run stuff as a different user I think.
  • nighticenightice
    I understand the concept of requesting to run with higher priveleges but saying it's "straight out of linux" is just plain ignorance.
  • QQ
    What then? The "You're an administrator but not THE administrator so it doesn't count" thing?

    -Q
  • WipeoutWipeout
    How is it ignorance? Don't you mean arrogance?
    Yeah, I'm sorry for that, but it is annoying you gotta admit. I remember running Mandrake 10 and trying to get it run solely off root so I didn't have to switch back and forth or use su everytime.
  • BODBOD
    Running stuff as root all the time is a brilliant way to get exploited.
  • nighticenightice
    Q wrote:
    What then? The "You're an administrator but not THE administrator so it doesn't count" thing?

    -Q
    Yep. Most systems have things set up so that if you're in the "wheel" group, you can sudo, otherwise even that is off limits.
  • WipeoutWipeout
    I don't worry about that stuff, cause it's never happened to me. I'm not paranoid about getting hacked.
  • QQ
    If the alternate logon was better I would've been a little happier back then. I remember something failing because I ran it with "su do", but it called something else that didn't have administrative power, so the whole thing failed.

    -Q
  • BODBOD
    There's not giving a damn, and plain stupid.
  • WipeoutWipeout
    Yeah, Linux already had security measures in back in the day...
    The regular user logons on most of the distros I used wouldn't let me do much.
  • BODBOD
    Try setting your windows user to "users". It's about as bad.
  • QQ
    I missed that.

    -Q
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