elevated-privileges

With the help of this great MSDN article , my first idea was to simply check if the process is using an elevated Administrator group, and using AdjustTokenGroups() I would set the Administrator group to SE_GROUP_USE_FOR_DENY_ONLY . Unfortunately though, we can't modify the administrator group on the currently running process as it also has the SE_GROUP_MANDATORY attribute, which makes it inelligable for changing. The MSDN document has this to say about it: The AdjustTokenGroups function cannot disable groups with the SE_GROUP_MANDATORY attribute in the TOKEN_GROUPS structure. Use

I want to get executable path of csrss process. I enabled privileges, but GetLastError() function returns error 5 in OpenProcess. I'm running Visual Studio as administrator and compiling program in 64bit mode, also I'm using Windows 8. Thanks to all. HANDLE hcurrentProcess=GetCurrentProcess(); HANDLE hToken; size_t error; if (!OpenProcessToken(hcurrentProcess, TOKEN_ADJUST_PRIVILEGES | TOKEN_QUERY, &hToken)) return nullptr; if (CheckTokenPrivilege(hcurrentProcess, SE_DEBUG_NAME)) { LUID luid; if (!LookupPrivilegeValue(NULL, SE_DEBUG_NAME, &luid)) return nullptr; TOKEN_PRIVILEGES newState

I need to get elevated credentials (to start a service) in a VB6 application, but only if the user needs to restart the service (I.e. I don't want to get elevated credentials whenever the application is started, only when the user selects restart). How can I do this in VB6? Fairly easy, but the preferred way involves a new elevated process. This example uses itself run with a switch to know to perform the Service Start instead of normal operations: VERSION 5.00 Begin VB.Form Form1 BorderStyle = 1 'Fixed Single Caption = "Form1" ClientHeight = 3060 ClientLeft = 45 ClientTop = 345 ClientWidth =

This code run without problem in release r debug when Visual studio isn't started as an admin. Marshal.GetActiveObject("Outlook.Application"); However, when I start Vs as administrator and run the same line in debug, I get the following error: System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException Operation unavailable (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800401E3 (MK_E_UNAVAILABLE)) How can I fix this. I would guess that you are running Visual Studio as Administrator (started via Run as Administrator) while Outlook was opened as user, who was logged in as under Windows logon. So the Visual Studio is running under

We are about to roll out several hundred new machines running windows 7, with the OS installed via WDS so at the moment we can make changes and sysprep them into the build. The problem is a .Net app we wrote years ago which itself spawns a modified command shell. That shell runs a dataflex application that itself needs to run with elevated permissions. We don't grant users any general admin rights. Is there a mechanism where we can pre-allow our .Net app to run as administrator so that the command control runs as Administrator? I'm aware of the changes I can make in the app.manifest to require

I have a console application that was developed to be called by a erp software. They call my app inside the erp and when they do it, i always get errors related to the insufficient permission to do it. I have checked the "run this program as an administrator" checkbox in the properties of the exe for all users but the result is the same. I have read something about adding a manifest that will make the app prompt for the uac dialog, but thats not what i want because the app will be called from erp on the server and clients will not see the dialog on server. Can someone explain me how to make